Juan Freytes placed Fluminense in the front in the 83rd minute, and Keno’s second half Stop-time header sealed a 4-2 victory over Uisan HD in a fascinating group F match on Saturday evening.
The winner of Freytes – his first goal for the Brazilian club – turned 17 minutes after teammate Nonato was leveled during a match where the management changed ownership twice.
John Arias also scored from an early free kick when Fluminense (1-0-1, 4 points) even moved on points and target difference with Dortmund (1-0-1, 4 points) at the FIFA Club World Cup, prior to the group final against Mamelodi Sundowns (1-1-0, 3 points) on Wednesday.
Jinhyun Lee and UM Won Sang scored for Ulsan (0-2-0, 0 points), which was eliminated with the result.
Freytes set Fluminense forever after the South Koreans had not made a corner clear and sent a composite finish in the correct post after receiving the neat pass from German Cano.
Nine minutes later, Keno’s header of Arias’ Cross sinned against a clearly tired Ulsan defense the victory.
Ulsan hit twice in the last 10 minutes of the first half to turn an early shortage into a resting lead before Fluminense was leveled by Nonato in the 66th minute.
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After a smooth movement of the Brazilians, Keno’s cross was only partially deleted from the left and Nonato delivered a composite finish in the right post from about 15 meters.
Late in the first half Lee came up for Ulsan in the 37th minute for an exceptional counterattack. The first pass of Diijan Bojanic from just past his own box jumped Sang won from the right. Won-Sang’s Lage Cross rolled over the box and beyond the dive of goalkeeper Fabio before Lee met it on the opposite flank. From a sleek angle, Lee brought an excellent first-touch finish into an open goal.
It was the same duo that was connected in the first half of the first half in the first half when, after a bad Fluminen partial clearance, I met Lee’s Kruis met with a powerful Duikkop more than Fabio’s dive in the left under corner.
For the first half hour it was Fluminense who seemed much more likely to score. The leadership eventually came on his furious with the 25-meter-free kick of 25 meters by Arias who beat goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-Woo to the top right corner.