Fluminense – Chelsea

The Brazilian team will not be able to surprise Chelsea players

The first semi-final game of the Club World Cup will feature the only team not from Europe. In this respect, Chelsea were certainly lucky with the tournament grid. All the most difficult tasks for the London club in the upper half of the "web" made other collectives. The same Fluminense took out Inter, and Saudi Al-Hilal did away with Manchester City. Although the opponents of the Blues were not gifts. Besides, it is impossible to ignore the obvious fact that Chelsea itself is progressing from match to match. At the last stage, playing against Palmeiras, the English club controlled almost the entire match. After conceding a stray return goal from the Brazilian team, Chelsea players only furrowed their brows and began to methodically undermine the Palmeiras defence, forcing their opponents to make mistakes. Fluminense reached the semi-finals of the tournament quite confidently, not once this team was not in a critical position. Only once during the World Cup "Flu" lost, but in the rivalry with Ulsan it only helped to concentrate and smash the opponents from South Korea, many times inferior to the Brazilians in class. Bookmakers have identified the nominal guests as favourites for the upcoming confrontation, offering odds of 1.68 on their victory. At the group stage of the tournament, Fluminense won only the aforementioned game against Ulsan, who lost all three matches in the group. The Brazilian club drew two more games to 0-0 draws. In the third round against Mamelodi Sundowns, the Flù did not play very well, trying to hinder their opponents and not trying to organise anything at their goal. The Brazilians won their play-off games against Inter and Al-Hilal in regulation time, but in both cases Fluminense had a significant amount of luck. Will Chelsea leave the fate of the game to luck? There are significant doubts. The London club will take to the pitch against their third opponent from Brazil at the tournament. Flamengo managed to take the Blues by surprise, but Palmeiras have already been overwhelmed by the class of the team, whose estimated squad value is 1.15 billion euros. Most likely, Chelsea will settle all questions in regulation time.