Chelsea face Flamengo within the Membership World Cup tonight, and we’re anticipating a very good sport.
There have been some fairly dire matches within the opening spherical of fixtures, each drab 0-0s and embarrassing 10-0s. However issues have improved since then, and Inter Miami’s win over Porto final night time was a correct upset to hopefully get issues into gear.
South American groups are undefeated on this competitors thus far, and that ought to be no shock. They’re all the time in search of an opportunity to check themselves in opposition to European opposition, and this match is accordingly big for them.
They’ve travelled in large numbers to the USA, and will likely be particularly hyped to play Chelsea tonight, with our present and previous Brazilian connections.
Former Blue Jorginho will likely be enjoying for the Rio membership, they usually’re managed by one time Chelsea left again Filipe Luis. David Luiz was enjoying there till earlier this 12 months, and has additionally had his say on the sport.
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“I believe it’s going to be an incredible sport”, the Champions League successful centre again mentioned.
“Chelsea have been on an upward curve, with new concepts, new gamers – they’re a brand new facet. The membership was underneath a unique proprietor after I was there, and lots has modified since. There’s a brand new chairman, lengthy contracts for younger gamers, plenty of adjustments have been made to try to develop the workforce over the previous few years, and we’re seeing the outcomes!”
Betting websites like Betway have the Blues as favourites, in fact, however it can seemingly be a really powerful, very shut sport. Enzo Maresca has already admitted that he’s going to alter up his workforce fairly considerably after enjoying successfully a full power XI within the first sport in opposition to LAFC.
Chelsea could possibly be concerned in thriller
So a barely weakened Chelsea in opposition to a very motivated Flamengo? It could possibly be an incredible sport. The temperatures and kick off time in Philadelphia ought to make circumstances higher than they’ve been for a few of the different video games, and we are able to solely hope there’s a greater crowd than there was in Atlanta on Monday night time.
Andrey Santos will likely be actually eager to play in opposition to a workforce that’s the rival of his former workforce Vasco, and the likes of Dario Essugo and Liam Delap will likely be itching to make a primary aggressive begin for the Blues.
We’re excited for this one.
