The British, inserted in Group D with Flamengo and Esperance Tunis beat the Americans in Atlanta
Good first. With a goal in time, Chelsea liquidates 2-0 the Los Angeles FC and celebrates the debut in group D in that club world championship which, as Enzo Maresca recalled, plays to win because winning is what the blues do. In Atlanta, the kings of the last Conference League show all their potential and to know how to move great in the Canovaccio di Maresca where they grew up to close the Premier League in fourth place. Especially in the second half, however, when the last team qualified for the World Cup grows enough to make themselves dangerous, they show that they have to improve a lot. Although in the end the blues close without conceding goals, as in Maresca likes.
Chelsea, debut ok to the World Cup
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The attack is the thing that works better than Chelsea. The blues have to play the game, against a team that especially in the first half thinks only of defending. They unlock after 34 ‘with Neto, a goal propitiated by the game vision of the game of Nicolas Jackson, who still plays as one who has something to be forgiven (the expulsion in Newcastle on the third last day of the premier) and as one who wants to defend his place as a center forward owner from the icy Liam Delap, a new number 9 from 35 million to which Maresca gives a good first taste of Chelsea in the last half hour. Jackson shines because on attack he does both the terminal and the bank: it is he who pulls on goal first, he is the one who creates the best opportunities with his passages. With the ice man of the Cole Palmer eager to honor the new number 10 shirt but still in Rodaggio, Jackson’s games are for a long time the thing that keeps the blues offensively. Like the incursions of Pedro Neto, the best on the pitch because in addition to the beautiful goal of the 1-0 (a splendid dribbling that sends to the Hollingshead bar before electrocuting Lloris on the first post) on the right is always dangerous and in the final the crossbar also It works to the great Marc Cucurella, good in each of the three roles he plays: he is left -wing when the team defends, attacks from number 10 in the first half recovering the ball that starts the action of the first goal and in the second half as a median next to Caicedo, always as a reference point. Enzo Fernandez also goes to the great, on the pitch in the second half for Lavia: in his insertion that at the 34th minute of the second half he brings to 2-0 there are all the improvements he made in 2024-25 to understand the game of Maresca and become one of the masters.
where he has to improve chelsea
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The coldness under the door of sure (17 total shots), but also something in the defensive phase. “It is a very good result, at this point of the season it is normal to have to manage some things. But we played very well and we won,” Cardo Maresca cut. The weak ring, as in the Conference League final, was bad taste, inside at the beginning of the second half instead of the already warned Reece James and pierced several times by Denis Bouanga, the only real threat of the Los Angeles FC. Maresca stressed that she had conquered the fourth place in the Premier with the third best defense of the championship: Chelsea fortunes in this club world championship that continues on Friday against Flamengo in Philadelphia also pass from their estate.
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