{"id":12747,"date":"2025-06-25T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12747\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:59:08","slug":"es-tunis-0-3-chelsea-club-world-cup-post-match-reaction-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12747\/","title":{"rendered":"ES Tunis 0-3 Chelsea, Club World Cup: Post-match reaction, ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"qbOc5B\">Chelsea took a long, long, long time to get going with any sort of real purpose or intent, but a quickfire double in first-half added-on time effectively decided the game, and would prove more than enough to advance to the knockout rounds of the FIFA Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9cIQ1S\">Enzo Maresca made wholesale changes to the squad from the Flamengo defeat, and for a while it didn\u2019t look like we would find any sort of coherent play as a result.  But eventually the individual quality shone through, with Enzo Fernandez chipping a free kick into the box for Tosin to head home, then Enzo finding Liam Delap to showcase some proper number-nine play to quickly double our lead.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pMzMdE\">The second half was largely an exercise in keeping control and maybe scoring a few more.  And we could\u2019ve gotten at least a couple more, but Christopher Nkunku was denied a chance to take a penalty after VAR overturned a handball call.  Tyrique George got a bit luckier at the very end, as the goalkeeper let a shot squirm through his hands to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p id=\"STwIrk\">Job done.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0sAJbT\">Carefree.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"kyQPHz\">Starting setup: Gusto at (inverting) left back, Acheampong on the right, Dewsbury-Hall ahead of him on the wing; Madueke on the left.  Nkunku in the middle, with Enzo advancing.  Delap the big man up top.<\/li>\n<li id=\"2kGusB\">Andrey Santos making his debut in the second half!  Mamadou Sarr then doing the same in the final ten minutes.<\/li>\n<li id=\"uejSJU\">Acheampong drawing multiple fouls and yellows for the opposition with some well-timed runs forward<\/li>\n<li id=\"78CcDm\">Tosin gets the Superior Player of the Match award<\/li>\n<li id=\"XTR3Om\">Next up: the Round of 16, where we\u2019ll take on Benfica, Saturday in Charlotte, NC<\/li>\n<li id=\"aMRM37\">KTBFFH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"Ab89Xy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc6C8tlX5x8NARgUTLLy9f0n1ajZPPnecQwoNLCuDKYOmoDVA\/viewform?usp=header\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PLAYER RATINGS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Loading\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea took a long, long, long time to get going with any sort of real purpose or intent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[468,461,475,462,463,13333,474,204,470,472,198,471,464,466,465,62,469,13334,67,132,68,467,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-12747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ain","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-chelsea-fifa-club-world-cup","11":"tag-club","12":"tag-cup","13":"tag-es","14":"tag-fifa-club-world-cup-2025","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-got","17":"tag-history","18":"tag-match","19":"tag-no","20":"tag-post","21":"tag-ratings","22":"tag-reaction","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-t","25":"tag-tunis","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-we","30":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114742477720015362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}