Benfica 1-4 (AET) Chelsea, club world club: post-match reaction, notes

In the Enzo Fernández “Derby”, the current club of Argentinian was those who sought to inflict pain on its old side. Everything with the help of the midfielder, helped by Romeo Lavia and Moisés Caicedo playing just behind him to protect Chelsea from any imminent threat posed by the veteran ángel Di María and the young Andreas Schjelderup.

The Blues almost scored at the 20 -minute brand with Marc Cucurella. However, with defender António Silva working as a goal post to eliminate the ball from the line, he never gotten.

Chelsea did not stop pushing towards the defense of Benfica in the second half, with the Portuguese part in a way even more ignorant of the way they could counter our efforts. And goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin, who looked unbeatable in the first half, finally lost it with the incredible free kick of Reece James from a very tight angle.

Benfica tried to put a return to find at least one link to send the match in an additional time. It seemed to do so that they could not do it until they rewarded a kick of a fully involuntary Malo handball during an aerial game in our box just after a two -hour weather time.

30 other minutes of play on the horizon. And it only took Benfica only two minutes to lose a player against a double yellow card, with Prestianni sent to showers after encouraging Levi Colwill near the region. The result was a quick succession of goals by Christopher Nkunku, Pedro Neto and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, once Benfica’s bottom line, led by Nicolas Otamendi, 37, began to show signs of fatigue.

Carefree!

• Romeo Lavia and Moisés Caicedo start in the midfield, while Captain Reece James plays on the right back.
• António Silva and Trubin combined to make our life really difficult in the first half.
• At a time of very few specialists from the dead balloon, having a great defender like Reece James who takes these reigns for the blues is a privilege.
• A good example of how to have a young blood faces veterans can really give good results if we are patient with ourselves.
• Then: Palmeiras in the quarter -finals of the Club World Cup.
• KTBFFH!