FIFA Club World Cup scores, highlights: Boca blow two-goal lead in wild game vs. Benfica; Chelsea blank LAFC

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Monday, the group D launched the game at the Club World Cup with Chelsea beating Los Angeles FC 2-0, showing why they are one of the favorites to win the Club World Cup. The blues started well with Liam Delap by doing his debut and helping the second goal at Enzo Fernandez. The Black and Gold had to win a playoff series with Club America to enter the tournament, replacing Club Leon, and they still fight against the Blues.

Boca Juniors and Benfica took the ground in Miami in a chaotic game, filled with red cards and filled with goals, then Flamengo closed at night, surviving the pressure of the Tunisian team Esperance, winning 2-0 to keep the pace of Chelsea before the duo lights up on Thursday.

Flamengo maintains the rhythm

The new signature Jorginho made his debut for Flamengo after joining Arsenal, and that immediately made a difference. After Luiz Araujo helped Giogian de Arrascaeta for the opening goal, Jorginho became the supplier of Araujo’s important objective in the second half of the game. Flamengo had to resist waves of expected pressure, who grew up in things when they stayed with a goal, but when Flamengo obtained their insurance objective, they left.

It was an important result, corresponding to the difference in Chelsea goals while organizing a meeting between the manager of Flamengo, Filipe Luis and his former club, who could determine who wins group D. Supported by impressive support, the Brazilian club showed that they were ready to play and cope with a deep race for the club world cup.

Chelsea starts hard

Pedro Neto was perhaps a little needed to score Chelsea’s opening goal, but ultimately their pressure exhausted the Los Angeles FC. The blues were able to add another and were never troubled by black and gold while they hunted their second goal. Delap’s new signature made his debut in Chelsea after joining Ipswich Town and has not waste time to show what he can do, helping Fernandez for Chelsea’s second goal.

The position of the starting striker is wide open for Chelsea, and with performances like this, Delap shows why Chelsea coveted it. Familiar with manager Enzo Maresca of his time at the Manchester City Youth Academy, he is already clear why the blues obtained it after scoring 12 goals and helped two others to relegate Ipswich Town. Lafc can take positive points of this loss because they have limited the chances of Chelsea, but with the MLS teams in difficulty, they will have to improve to show that MLS can get points in this competition.

Boca juniors slide the chance to upset themselves for Benfica

There is no doubt that fans of Boca Juniors love them by Nicolas Otamendi and Angel Di Maria. After all, how could they not? Argentine football hero who helped to raise the 2022 World Cup for Lionel Messi and Company, they will have always found memories of the two in the Argentinian shirt – but at the club level, not so much.

Boca took a 2-0 surprise advance against the European team on Miami on Monday in his opening game of the group phase, only to see the two play huge roles the rest of the path. Otamendi attracted a penalty kick at the end of the first half that Di Maria scored, then the defender was free in a corner of half-time to go home to the equalization in what was a chaotic and sometimes violent game.

Andrea Belotti from Benfica obtained a red card in the second half for a head boot before Nicolas Figal was shown in red for a ridiculous challenge on the tactile line, a temperament has flared over the game.

In the end, the match ended with three red cards, but it was Boca’s inability to take advantage of an advance of two goals, then an advantage of a man with an advance of a goal. A victory for Boca would have set foot in the round of 16, but now, everything comes down to what Boca and Benfica do against Bayern Munich, with the city of Auckland which should lose against the three teams of the group.

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