• Monterrey 1-2 Liverpool• Firmino scores 91st-minute goal to set up final against Flamengo
Different continent, different competition, same old Liverpool. The Club
World Cup semi-final proved a headache for the European champions against Monterrey but Roberto Firmino came off the bench to convert a stoppage-time winner and set up a final encounter with his fellow Brazilians of Flamengo on Saturday. Jürgen Klopp’s men go to the end regardless of the prize at stake.
The importance of the competition was writ large on the devastated faces of the Monterrey players after Firmino tapped home an inviting cross from fellow substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold to seal a slender and difficult victory.
Liverpool were disrupted by illness and injury but left in no doubt they will have to up their game considerably to claim the trophy for the first time in their history this weekend.