Hello and welcome to football.london for live coverage of Chelsea’s FIFA Club World Cup clash with Flamengo.
The Blues can progress into the round of 16 with three points at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia today. After winning last time out against Los Angeles FC, a victory over Flamego will mean the west Londoners are almost there – they will just be relying on LAFC to win or draw against Esperance later in the day.
If Chelsea were to win and Los Angeles were to beat Esperance, then the Blues would qualify as group winners because of the head-to-head record overruling goal difference in the Club World Cup. Enzo Maresca said during his press conference on Thursday that he will be rotating a bit for the game today, not least because of the extreme heat in Philadelphia at the moment.
We are set to find out the official team news around an hour before the 7pm (UK time) kick-off time (2pm local time). You can follow all of the pre-match build up, as well as every ball that is kicked, right here with football.london‘s dedicated live blog.
