This Saturday was marked by the first 8th finals of the Club World Cup. While Palmeiras went to seek his qualification for the rest of the tournament at the expense of a duel against his neighbor Botafogo, Chelsea faced Benfica. An exciting meeting between two European teams that shone during the group phase. Even if the blues were surprised against Flamengo in hens, the latter caught up well in the face of the Hope of Tunis and challenged strong Benfiquists of a prestigious success against Bayern Munich.
However, the LisBoets displayed a much less brilliant face than against the Bavarians this Saturday. Balled from the start, Bruno Lage's men quickly left the ball to their opponents. Led by a Pedro Neto stirring, the Londoners obtained their first opportunities. Finally, Antonio Silva and Anatolii Trubin maintained the virgin score through several heroic actions (20th, 21st, 39th). Thus, the two teams returned to the locker rooms but the debates were widely led by the LisBoets.
Chelsea finds the fault on a magnificent free kick
Upon returning from the locker room, the physiognomy of the meeting has not changed. Collectively superior and more incisive offensively, the blues continued to be threatening near the Portuguese surface. However, the meeting could have changed at the time of play on an error narrowly avoided by Robert Sanchez who almost let go of the ball in his own nets after a long center of Aursnes (59th). Finally, Chelsea was rewarded for her good match five minutes later. On a free kick on the left side, Reece James wrapped her ball perfectly to deceive a trubin who had not closed his closed angle well (0-1, 64th). Logically taking the advantage, Chelsea even thought it doubled the 80th minute of play for a logical offside position by Liam Delap (80th). After a long interruption of two hours due to violent bad weather, the meeting finally changed on the return of the 22 players on the lawn.
On a hand of Malo Gusto, Benfica equalized at the very end of the match on a penalty transformed by Angel Di Maria (1-1, 90+5th). In overtime, the two teams fought a good battle. Taking advantage of the rapid expulsion of Gianluca Prestianni for a second yellow card on a stupid fault (92nd), the Blues turned again in the second period of this extension. On a Trubin hand error, Christopher Nkunku was more obstinate against Nicolas Otamendi to score his 15th goal of the season (1-2, 108th). The start of the festival for blues. Faced with exhausted Benfiquettes, Chelsea rushed at the nail after counters perfectly concluded by Pedro Neto (1-3, 115th) then Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (1-4, 117th). With this festival at the end of the night, Chelsea therefore continues the American adventure and will face Palmeiras in the quarterfinals of the competition. Clap at the end for Angel Di Maria, in tears, for his last match with Benfica, who closes his club World Cup with this terrible defeat.
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