© Getty Images Though Club America fought as hard as they could, a brace of Real Madrid strikes deprived them of a dream ticket to the final of the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016. Pondering his side’s semi-final exit over a yerba mate infusion, the club’s Argentinian centre-half Paolo Goltz said: “If you switch off for a second against a team like that, they make you pay for it.”
In compiling their 2-0 win over the Mexicans, the European champions followed a script that has become familiar in recent times, as Goltz told FIFA.com: “The goals came at just the right time for them, on the stroke of half-time and then right at the end of the game. We knew we couldn’t make any mistakes and we paid for the two we did make.”
America have two days to get over their disappointment. Thursday’s defeat brought to an end an unbeaten run that stretched back to 18 September when Ricardo La Volpe took over as coach. The task now is to embark on another such run, and the players are intent on starting..
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