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Bayern Munich thrashed Auckland City 10-0 in Cincinnati in the first match of day two at the 2025 Club World Cup.
The Group C clash pitted one of the true heavyweights of the tournament against the smallest club, with the German side unsurprisingly dominating.
Wingers Kingsley Coman and Michael Olise both scored braces with Sacha Boey and Thomas Muller also getting on the scoresheet as the first half finished 6-0.
And it was all about Jamal Musiala in the second half as he scored the first hat-trick of the tournament after replacing Harry Kane. Muller then ensured Bayern reached double figures with his 250th goal for the club he will leave after the Club World Cup.
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Lots of people watching that 10-0 win for Bayern making the same observation: there is a real chance we will similar mismatches at next summer's World Cup.
The expansion from 32 teams to 48 means that some less accomplished nations are getting the chance to compete and that could spell problems, like the ones we have just seen for Auckland City.
Will 48 teams mean a greater festival of football or dilution of a world-leading product?
This was actually the joint-biggest win in international competition in Bayern's history, matching the 10-0 victory over Anorthosis Famagusta in the 1983 UEFA Cup.
We know that these are the final days of Thomas Muller's 25-year affiliation with Bayern Munich.
So for him to add two more goals to his tally this afternoon felt pretty important for the 35-year-old. And his second strike brought up an impressive milestone as he moved onto 250 goals for the German giants.
It was the first time he has scored twice in the same game for Bayern since all the way back in August.
If you'd told me Bayern Munich were going to rack up 10 goals today, then I would have expected Harry Kane to have got his name on the scoresheet three or four times.
So for him to completely miss out on the goals — and assists — is a real shock and perhaps an indication of the toll a long season has taken on him.
Vincent Kompany will hope that his goal drought will not extend too much further into the tournament as he will need to be heavily involved if Bayern are to go all the way over the next few weeks.
In line with Adam Crafton's point earlier on, there has been a lot of criticism in Spain, mostly from Barcelona fans, about the fact that Barca or Liverpool are not in the tournament.
However, these were the rules and the risk of such peculiarities recurring will continue to accompany the tournament. It’s called the Club World Cup because there is representation from all over the world, including Oceania.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say the next game at this Club World Cup won't be as one sided as the one we have just watched.
It is the first truly heavyweight clash of the tournament and it kicks off in just under an hour from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
Luis Enrique's newly crowned UEFA Champions League winners are facing Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid and we are already covering that match live.
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Auckland City were under no illusion about what would happen here. Bayern are Bayern. Their attitude was very much to come to the US, do their best, and raise some money for the local causes they support along the way. Among them, there's a new all-weather surface being built in their district which, when completed, will serve the local schools.
Is that worth a 10-0 defeat? Ask the players, but that was the higher purpose that the club carried into this tournament.
FT Bayern Munich 10-0 Auckland City
The Auckland City suffering is over. They can finally haul their tired bodies off the turf at TQL Stadium.
Credit to Bayern Munich for a very professional job and they, unsurprisingly, hold the record for the biggest win in Club World Cup history.
Hopefully the Auckland City players have enjoyed themselves out there, though I'm not sure they will have done.
90+1' Bayern Munich 10-0 Auckland City
I've got no idea why there will be five more minutes of this game, but there will be as advertised by the fourth official.
Muller, clearly not feeling sorry for his opponents, celebrated his side's 10th goal with a huge roar in the direction of the Bayern supporters inside TQL Stadium.
I reckon there are still plenty of them who want to see an 11th goal in this period of stoppage time…
89' Bayern Munich 10-0 Auckland City
Yes, they can! Muller has his second goal and Bayern have double figures.
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88' Bayern Munich 9-0 Auckland City
No one was expecting much at all from Auckland City, but this has felt pretty cruel.
These two teams should not be playing against each other, particularly not in a tournament billed as the world's best teams going up against each other.
Can Bayern make it 10-0 in the last throes?
85' Bayern Munich 9-0 Auckland City
I have praised Conor Tracey a few times in this live occasion after a string of decent saves, but that is unforgiveable.
The Auckland City goalkeeper literally passed the ball straight to Musiala a yard or two outside his penalty area. The young midfielder stepped into the box and finished superbly into the bottom corner.
Musiala has the first hat-trick of the 2025 Club World Cup and will go home with the match ball!
84' Bayern Munich 9-0 Auckland City
And Bayern move closer to the double-figure victory as substitute Musiala completes his hat-trick!
80' Bayern Munich 8-0 Auckland City
Finally, Auckland City have had a shot at this Club World Cup!
Another promising counter-attack, this time with substitute Angus Kilkolly racing down the left wing. With no one in support, and with Bayern defenders converging on him from everywhere, he went for the spectacular.
It was never going in, but it did force Neuer into a diving save.
77' Bayern Munich 8-0 Auckland City
As a Leicester City fan, I take great pleasure in saying that I have seen a 9-0 win, when my beloved team stuffed Southampton on the road back in 2019.
And Manchester United inflicted the same margin of defeat on the same opponent a few years later.
I have still yet to see a team score 10 goals in one game — Bayern have another quarter of an hour or so to make that happen.
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73' Bayern Munich 8-0 Auckland City
An eighth goal for Bayern Munich and their first from the penalty spot today.
It was actually a pretty harsh decision to award the spot kick with Musiala making a lot of a pretty innocuous challenge on him in the box.
The young Bayern midfielder dusted himself down and sent Tracey the wrong way from 12 yards.
71' Bayern Munich 7-0 Auckland City
That was the moment for Auckland City to get on the scoresheet.
It was, once again, Manickum who led the counter-attack and his pass was much better this time around. He picked out Yoo in plenty of space on the right-hand side of the penalty area, but the 25-year-old deliberated far too much and Musiala got back well to steal the ball away.
69' Bayern Munich 7-0 Auckland City
Plenty of good saves from Tracey today, but that is one that he will be disappointed with.
Musiala cut onto his right foot inside the D on the edge of the penalty area and bent a curling effort towards the corner. But it was at a nice height for Tracey and he should've kept it out.
But all he could was help it on its way past him.