The blues take the lead in the first half but the Brazilians rise again in the second: the first replacement of the Brazilians decisive, who have one foot in the round of 16

By our correspondent Davide Chinellato

June 20, 2025 (modification at 10:11 pm) – London (United Kingdom)

Self -destruction manual, Chelsea edition. Come on, comfortably of a goal in the middle of the second half, with the pass for the eighth of the Club World Championship with a match in advance a few minutes away, the team of Enzo Maresca gets overturned 3-1 from Flamengo, conceding two goals in less than 300 seconds (the third, well deserved for Zico’s happiness, legend in the stands, arrives in the final) and erasing all the good one that had said the first game against the Lafc. The Brazilians are one step away from qualifying in group D after the second success, Chelsea to defeat (the passage of the round now passes from the last game against Esperance) also add the damage of the crazy expulsion of Nicolas Jackson, which hunted at 68 ‘for a fallacium on Gerson just 4’ after entering. A madness, like the one that at the third last of Premier with Newcastle risked compromising the blues Champions League race, then straightened in the last two championship matches, which denounces the immaturity of what should be the center forward of the Maresca team. And even how much Chelsea should still grow.

reversal

Flamengo has reversed to win. In the first half he had skidded, hit by Neto’s goal after 13 ‘(with the kind collaboration of Wesley) and spared a couple of other times by the counterattacks of Chelsea not exceptional but certainly convincing and ahead with merit after 45’. In the second half, however, the Brazilian team changed skin: thanks to Filipe, the 39 -year -old coach with a player career in Chelsea who hit the changes. Starting with Bruno Henrique, better in the field author of the goal like 62 ‘and then of the Assist three minutes later for Danilo’s advantage. But also by Wallace Yan, who just a minute after entering his first goal for Flamengo signs, to the delight of the Brazilian fans in a vast majority among the 54 thousand of the Lincoln Field of Philadelphia.

lesson

Chelsea leaves the field with a lesson. On how fierce the opponents are in this competition that for the Maresca team knows so much of a new season, but also on how much there is work to be worked. Defense errors, guilty of the three goals from Flamengo, seemed left in the crisis of results immediately after Christmas. Jackson’s maturity seemed past story, since the center forward had said he wanted to play to be forgiven by his companions. What is sunk against Flamengo is not the team that is trying to build Maresca, the one that won the Conference League and closed the premier with the younger rose ever in fourth place. Against Flamengo, as soon as the difficulty has climbed, it is as if all the problems of Chelsea had returned suddenly. And now Maresca will have to understand how to overcome them before the last game of the group, on the Italian night between Tuesday and Wednesday.



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