{"id":23303,"date":"2025-06-29T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23303\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:51:07","slug":"benfica-1-4-a-e-t-chelsea-club-world-cup-post-match-reaction-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23303\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica 1-4 (a.e.t.) Chelsea, Club World Cup: Post-match reaction, ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"0oyWFF\">In the Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez \u201cderby\u201d, the Argentinian\u2019s current club were the ones looking to inflict pain on his former side.  All with the midfielder\u2019s help, aided by Romeo Lavia and Mois\u00e9s Caicedo playing right behind him to shield Chelsea from any imminent threat posed by veteran \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda and youngster Andreas Schjelderup.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gJNjE9\">The Blues nearly scored at the 20-minute mark with Marc Cucurella.  However with defender Ant\u00f3nio Silva working as a goalpost to clear the ball off the line, it was never going in.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wqxZ29\">Chelsea didn\u2019t stop pushing towards Benfica\u2019s defence in the second half, with the Portuguese side somehow even more clueless as to how they could counter our efforts.  And goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin, who looked unbeatable in the first half, finally lost it with Reece James\u2019 amazing free kick from a very tight angle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0hGazJ\">Benfica tried to mount a comeback to find at least a tying goal to send the match into extra time.  It looked as if they couldn\u2019t do it until they were rewarded a penalty spot kick from a completely unintentional Malo Gusto handball during an aerial play in our box right after a two-hour weather delay.<\/p>\n<p id=\"S8v7es\">Another 30 minutes of play on the horizon.  And it took Benfica only two minutes to lose a player to a double yellow card, with Prestianni sent to the showers after fouling Levi Colwill near the area.  The result was a quick succession of goals from Christopher Nkunku, Pedro Neto and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall once Benfica\u2019s backline, led by 37-year-old Nicolas Otamendi, started to show signs of tiredness.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JRZ2pD\">Carefree!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"bzj99Q\">Romeo Lavia and Mois\u00e9s Caicedo start in midfield, while captain Reece James plays right-back.<\/li>\n<li id=\"lQBiCL\">Ant\u00f3nio Silva and Trubin combining to make our lives really difficult in the first half.<\/li>\n<li id=\"CmROgy\">In an era of very few dead ball specialists, having a great defender such as Reece James taking these reigns for the Blues is a privilege.<\/li>\n<li id=\"NyVJFJ\">A good example of how having young blood facing veterans can actually yield good results if we\u2019re patient with our own selves.<\/li>\n<li id=\"SMLx4U\">Next up: Palmeiras in the Club World Cup quarter-final.<\/li>\n<li id=\"ytjdc2\">KTBFFH!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Carregando\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez \u201cderby\u201d, the Argentinian\u2019s current club were the ones looking to inflict pain on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[190,468,21081,461,475,462,463,21126,1924,474,204,470,472,198,471,464,466,465,473,62,469,67,132,68,467,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-23303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-ain","10":"tag-benfica","11":"tag-chelsea","12":"tag-chelsea-fifa-club-world-cup","13":"tag-club","14":"tag-cup","15":"tag-e","16":"tag-fifa-club-world-cup","17":"tag-fifa-club-world-cup-2025","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-got","20":"tag-history","21":"tag-match","22":"tag-no","23":"tag-post","24":"tag-ratings","25":"tag-reaction","26":"tag-soccer-sg","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-t","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-we","33":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764151767719939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303","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=23303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}