RABAT, Morocco -- CONCACAF champions Cruz Azul ousted Asian champs Western Sydney Wanderers 3-1 in extra time and joined New Zealand's Auckland City in the Club World Cup semifinals for the first time on Saturday.
Cruz Azul will play Real Madrid on Tuesday in Rabat, and Auckland City will face Copa Libertadores champ San Lorenzo on Wednesday in Marrakech.
In unrelenting rain in Rabat, Western Sydney scored first against the run of play with Iacopo La Rocca taking an opportunist shot from a poor clearance.
La Rocca put Wanderers ahead on 65 minutes with a thumping long-range shot -- the ball just centimetres above the sodden turf that would have surely stopped it before it could get anywhere near the Cruz Azul goal.
Western Sydney midfielder Matthew Spiranovic was then sent off for a second yellow card for hand ball, and Cruz Azul laid siege for the remaining 15 minutes.
It didn't pay off until the 89th, when Shannon Cole was penalised for fouling Marco Fabian just inside the area and Gerardo Torrado sent Covic the wrong way from the penalty spot, forcing extra time.
It became worse for Wanderers at the start of the extra period when captain and defender Nikolai Topor-Stanley was issued his second yellow for pulling back Ismael Valadez.
Cruz Azul pounced, with Hugo Pavone knocking a rebound into an empty net in the 108th minute, and Torrado converting another penalty for hand ball in the 118th.