Michael Olise’s 84th-minute goal was enough to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over Boca Juniors on Friday in Miami Gardens as the reigning German champion clinched a spot in the knockout phase of the Club World Cup.

After a scramble in the penalty area, Harry Kane sent the ball back to Olise, who blasted a shot into the bottom left corner of the net.

Boca had leveled the match in the 66th minute on a goal from Miguel Merentiel after Kane gave Bayern a first-half lead.

Bayern (2-0-0, 6 points) faced a much stiffer test than in its Group C opener, a 10-0 rout of semi-pro Auckland City (0-2-0, 0 points).

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Boca Juniors (0-1-1, 1 point) still have a chance to advance, but it would need to rout Auckland City on Tuesday in Nashville and have Benfica (1-0-1, 4 points) lose to Bayern the same day in Charlotte.

For Boca’s tying goal, Alan Velasco delivered a pass from midfield into space for Merentiel to chase. Merentiel beat Bayern defender Jonathan Tah to the ball, then rounded defender Josip Stanisic before firing a 12-yard, right-footed shot over the head of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and into the net.

Bayern also produced an impressive goal. Konrad Laimer fired an entry pass to the center of the Boca penalty area. Kingsley Coman knocked the ball back to Kane, who took a heavy touch but still reached the ball in time to fire in a 12-yard shot with his left foot.

Neeraj Chopra defeated Julian Weber to clinch the Paris Diamond League title, on Friday.

Neeraj Chopra was in fine form in Paris on Friday, as he bagged his first Diamond League title in two years, upstaging Germany’s Julian Weber. The Indian javelin superstar’s first throw of 88.16m saw him win the title. Meanwhile, his second throw saw him reach 85.10m and then he fouled in his next three tries. Then in his sixth and final throw, he registered 82.89m.

Weber came second with his opening throw of 87.88m, followed by Brazil’s Luiz Mauricio Da Silva, who got 86.62m in his second attempt.

Here is the full video of Chopra’s first throw in Paris:

Chopra had breached the 90m mark in the Doha Diamond League recently, with a throw of 90.23m, but had to settle for second place. In Doha, Weber won gold, with his last round throw of 91.06m.

Weber also beat Chopra at the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial meet in Poland, where overcast and windy conditions saw the German get 86.12m. Meanwhile, Chopra came second with a 84.14m throw.

Chopra won his last Diamond League titlei n Lausanne in June 2023, with a throw of 87.66m. Since then, he has bagged second position in six Diamond League meetings.

The Paris Diamond League event saw Arshad Nadeem once again missing from action, as he didn’t participate in the meet.

Here’s how the final standings looked like in Paris-

1. Neeraj Chopra: 88.16m
2. Julian Weber: 87.88m
3. Luiz Mauricio da Silva: 86.62m
4. Keshorn Walcott: 81.66m
5. Anderson Peters: 80.29m
6. Julius Yego: 80.26m
7. Andrian Mardare:76.66m
8. Remi Rougetet: 70.37m

Neeraj was also competing at the Paris Diamond League after eight long years, having come eighth in 2017 with a best throw of 84.67m. The Paris leg was the eighth of the 15 meetings that make up the Diamond League 2025 season, with a two-day final in Zurich in August.

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Leandro Barreiro scored in the 76th and 78th minutes as Benfica pulled away to a 6-0 victory over semi-pro side Auckland City in a Group C encounter Friday, one plagued by a lengthy halftime weather delay.

Angel Di María converted twice from the penalty spot for his second and third goals of the tournament, once in stoppage time of each half. Vangelis Pavlidis and Renato Sanches added goals early in the second half after play finally restarted.

The Portuguese victors pressured until the end, knowing goal differential could determine who advances to the FIFA Club World Cup knockout phase, and Di María earned a second penalty shot with one final slaloming run into the box.

Benfica will close Group C against Bayern Munich, which defeated Auckland 10-0 in their opener. Officially eliminated, Auckland will play Boca Juniors on Matchday 3 on Tuesday.

Boca and Benfica drew 2-2 on Monday.

After Auckland’s Nathan Garrow made seven first-half stops, Di Maria finally put Benfica in front in the eighth minute of first-half stoppage time.

Gianluca Prestianni won the opportunity, slicing into the right corner of the box and weathering Haris Zeb’s late sliding challenge.

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Di Maria calmly converted, allowing Garrow to guess in the wrong direction before dispatching his side-footed effort.

That eased some growing frustration from the Portuguese favourites after a succession of missed chances and 18 total first-half shot attempts.

Amid that stretch, Alvaro Carreras picked up his second caution of the tournament, meaning he’ll be suspended for Benfica’s third match against River Plate on Tuesday.

Auckland began the second half energetically after the match was delayed approximately two hours and nine minutes due to inclement weather.

But Benfica doubled its advantage in the 53rd minute through Pavlidis, who received Orkun Kokcu’s pass inside the penalty area with his back to the goal, turned, neatly evaded a lunging challenge and finished low to the left post.

In the 63rd minute, substitute Sanches made it 3-0 only moments after his second-half introduction. His shot from beyond the area took a heavy deflection off Auckland’s Matthew Ellis on its way into the bottom right corner.