2008 FIFA Club World Cup final
# 2008 FIFA Club World Cup final

The 2008 FIFA Club World Cup final was the final match of the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup, an association football tournament for the champion clubs from each of FIFA's six continental confederations. The match took place at the International Stadium Yokohama, Japan, on 21 December 2008, and pitted LDU Quito of Ecuador, the CONMEBOL club champions, and Manchester United of England, the UEFA club champions. Despite going down to ten men early in the second half, Manchester United won the match 1–0 thanks to a 73rd-minute goal from Wayne Rooney.

## Road to final

Both Manchester United and LDU Quito qualified for the competition at the semi-final stage, after winning their respective continental competition, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and the 2008 Copa Libertadores.

LDU Quito's opening game was against Mexican side Pachuca, who had defeated Egyptian club Al Ahly 4–2 in the quarter-finals after extra time. Their semi-final match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 17 December 2008. LDU Quito scored two goals in the first 26 minutes, through Claudio Bieler and Luis Bolaños, securing a place in the Club World Cup final.

Manchester United's semi-final opponents were Gamba Osaka, who had previously defeated Australian A-League premiers and Asian Champions League runners-up Adelaide United (1–0) to move into the second semi-final on 18 December. Nemanja Vidić and Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the first half, putting Manchester United ahead by two goals at half time. Masato Yamazaki was the next to score, in the 74th minute, to bring Gamba back into the competition, but Wayne Rooney scored twice and Darren Fletcher once within the next five minutes to extend United's lead. Yasuhito Endō converted an 85th-minute penalty kick and Hideo Hashimoto got a third for Gamba just minutes before the final whistle. The result was 5–3, taking Manchester United to the final.

## Match

### Details

| LDU Quito | Manchester United |
| - | - |

44' :

| RB | 23 | Jayro Campos | 36' |
| - | - | - | - |
| CB | 3 | Renán Calle | 66' | 77' |
| CB | 2 | Norberto Araujo |
| LB | 14 | Diego Calderón |
| RM | 13 | Néicer Reasco | | 82' |
| CM | 15 | William Araujo | 71' |
| CM | 8 | Patricio Urrutia (c) |
| LM | 7 | Luis Bolaños | | 87' |
| SS | 16 | Claudio Bieler | 2' |
| CF | 21 | Damián Manso |
| Substitutions: |||
| MF | 4 | Paúl Ambrosi | | 77' |
| MF | 20 | Pedro Larrea | | 82' |
| FW | 19 | Reinaldo Navia | | 87' |
| Manager: |||
| Edgardo Bauza ||||

Edwin van der Sar :

| RB | 21 | Rafael | | 85' |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| CB | 5 | Rio Ferdinand (c) |
| CB | 15 | Nemanja Vidić | 49' |
| LB | 3 | Patrice Evra |
| RM | 13 | Park Ji-sung |
| CM | 16 | Michael Carrick |
| CM | 8 | Anderson | 70' | 88' |
| LM | 7 | Cristiano Ronaldo |
| CF | 32 | Carlos Tevez | | 51' |
| CF | 10 | Wayne Rooney |
| Substitutions: |||
| DF | 23 | Jonny Evans | | 51' |
| DF | 2 | Gary Neville | | 85' |
| MF | 24 | Darren Fletcher | | 88' |
| Manager: |||
| Alex Ferguson ||||
| Assistant referees: Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan) Bahadyr Kochkorov (Kyrgyzstan) Fourth official: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Twelve named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |

### Statistics

First half :

| | LDU Quito | Manchester United |
| - | - | - |
| Goals scored | 0 | 0 |
| Total shots | 4 | 11 |
| Shots on target | 0 | 5 |
| Ball possession | 36% | 64% |
| Corner kicks | 0 | 3 |
| Fouls committed | 14 | 10 |
| Offsides | 0 | 1 |
| Yellow cards | 3 | 0 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |

Second half :

| | LDU Quito | Manchester United |
| - | - | - |
| Goals scored | 0 | 1 |
| Total shots | 6 | 5 |
| Shots on target | 3 | 4 |
| Ball possession | 54% | 46% |
| Corner kicks | 5 | 0 |
| Fouls committed | 12 | 7 |
| Offsides | 3 | 0 |
| Yellow cards | 2 | 1 |
| Red cards | 0 | 1 |

Overall :

| | LDU Quito | Manchester United |
| - | - | - |
| Goals scored | 0 | 1 |
| Total shots | 10 | 16 |
| Shots on target | 3 | 9 |
| Ball possession | 45% | 55% |
| Corner kicks | 5 | 3 |
| Fouls committed | 26 | 17 |
| Offsides | 3 | 1 |
| Yellow cards | 5 | 1 |
| Red cards | 0 | 1 |
