Thirty-two clubs from around the world will compete in the Club World Cup, which begins Saturday night when Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami hosts Al Ahly, the champions of the Egyptian Premier League. Messi and Miami are +100 favorites on the three-way moneyline for Saturday’s curtain-raiser.

The Sounders come into the match having lost two straight, including a sound 3-0 defeat last weekend against rivals Vancouver. They had two players sent off in a three-minute stretch, and they failed to register a single shot on target from seven attempts against a team that conceded five goals to Cruz Azul just a week before.

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Nevertheless, with global giants such as Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City and Juventus all striving for silverware in North America, many an interesting storyline could be written between June 14 and July 13. Here, Sports Mole provides group-by-group predictions for the 2025 Club World Cup.

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In principle there ought to be nothing particularly contentious about a competition to decide the best club side in the world. Between 1960 and 2004 the champions of Europe and South America faced off for bragging rights,