First Half:
1. Chelsea's attacking transitions tonight are sharp and fast.
2. Cole Palmer is on another level tonight, beyond just the goal.
3. Liam Delap 🔥 needs to work on these unnecessary fouls.
4. Andrey Santos delivered, but more is needed.
5. Overall, I'm impressed.

Palmeiras 0-1 #Chelsea: Back underway for the second half at Lincoln Financial Field.

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Goal. Palmeiras. Estevao.

1-1.

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Delap/Nkunku OFF

Joao Pedro/Madueke ON

JOAO PEDRO MAKES HIS CHELSEA DEBUT VS. PALMEIRAS!

We literally paid them £30 million, that goal should count for Chelsea 🌚

Levi Colwill... take a bow. Brilliant defending. 👏

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GOAL! Palmeiras 1-2 #Chelsea - Malo Gusto [83’]

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It's been given as an own goal. Five minutes plus stoppage time to hold on! 😤

Late change. C'mon Chelsea!

🟢 1-2 🔵 [7]

🚨Colwill yellow card. He will be suspended if Chelsea progress.

Not good.

SUB: Dario Essugo replaces Andrey Santos

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An impressive first Chelsea start from Andrey Santos, who will only get better and better. 🇧🇷

FT: Palmeiras 1-2 Chelsea

The Blues are through to the Club World Cup semi-final and will face Fluminense! 🔵🇺🇸

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, Gusto, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella, Santos (Essugo 91’), Fernandez (C), Neto (Dewsbury-Hall 87’), Palmer, Nkunku (Madueke 54’), Delap (J.Pedro 54’)

Bench: Jorgensen, Penders, Slonina, Acheampong, Tosin, Anselmino, Sarr, Essugo, Dewsbury-Hall, Madueke, George, Joao Pedro, Guiu, Jackson

NOTE: Andrey Santos replaced Reece James in the starting XI due to injury.

Unused substitutes: Jorgensen, Penders, Slonina, Acheampong, Tosin, Anselmino, Sarr, George, Guiu, Jackson

🟨 Yellow cards: Gusto (40’), Delap (47’), Colwill (85’)

Palmeiras XI: Weverton, Giay, Micael, Fuchs, Vanderlan, Rios, Martinez, Estevao, Allan, Torres, Roque

Bench: Lomba, Oliveira, Naves, Benedetti, Rocha, Mayke, Veiga, Moreno, Evangelista, Anderson, Mauricio, Thalys, Lopez, Luighi, Paulinho

🔵 G/A for Chelsea from:

Cole Palmer ⚽️ [16’]
Trevoh Chalobah 🅰️
Weverton ⚽️❌ [OG, 82’]

🟢⚪️ Goal for Palmeiras from:

Estêvão Willian ⚽️ [52’]

Thoughts on the game? ⬇️

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🚨FIFA MOTM: Estevao.

Jamie Gittens is here 💙💙💙

🚨UPDATE: FIFA Club World Cup Money: 💰

✅ £29.6M ~ Participation package
✅ + £3M ~ 2 wins)
✅ + £5.8M ~ R16, Knockout
✅ + 10.2M ~ Quarter Final
🆕 + £16.3M ~ Semi-Final

≈ £64.9M for Chelsea Football Club

Your thoughts on that Joao Pedro cameo?

𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒:

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STARTING XI:

Sanchez - 4 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 - 5: First dangerous shot on goal and he has his positioning completely wrong.

Cucurella - 8.5: Didn’t invert today, but was an absolute rock at the back.

Chalobah - 7: Very solid defending and won all of his aerial duels.

Colwill - 7: Did very well at the back and like Chalobah also won all aerial duels. Advanced the ball very well.

Gusto - 7: Quite sloppy at times, but did produce the winning goal. Inverted role doesn’t suit him.

Santos - 7: Good first start. Tackling and duel ability is impressive.

Nkunku - 5.5: Wasn’t really involved and lacked will and passion.

Palmer - 8.5: Trademark goal from him and contributed well to the attack.

Neto - 7.5: Very difficult game for him, given Jota’s unfortunate passing. Crossing and dribbling was very sharp and was unlucky to not contribute to a goal.

Enzo - 7: Good game. Didn’t really stand out, but didn’t put a foot wrong too.

Delap - 5.5: Silly booking, going to miss the next game. Difference between him and Pedro was clear to see.

SUBSTITUTES:

J.Pedro - 8: Looked very confident and fit, considering he was on holiday three days ago and only trained a few times with us.

Madueke - 7.5: Played like he wanted to stay, unlucky to not get a goal

Dewsbury-Hall - N/A

Esseugo - N/A

Thoughts? 🔵⬇️

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