{"id":493341,"date":"2025-06-16T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493341"},"modified":"2025-06-17T04:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:16:42","slug":"delap-shines-on-chelsea-debut-beats-lafc-2-0-in-club-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/delap-shines-on-chelsea-debut-beats-lafc-2-0-in-club-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Delap shines on Chelsea debut, beats LAFC 2-0 in Club World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea began their FIFA Club World Cup 2025 campaign with a 2-0 win over Los Angeles FC on Monday, though the atmosphere was notably subdued at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, with only 22,137 fans in attendance in a venue that seats over 71,000.<\/p>\n<p>The match marked the debut of Liam Delap, Chelsea&#8217;s \u00a330 million summer signing from Ipswich, and the 21-year-old made an immediate impact. His intelligent movement and link-up play set up Enzo Fernandez for a simple second-half finish following a pinpoint cross. Earlier, Pedro Neto had opened the scoring with a composed near-post strike after breaking free in the first half.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LgfQ2WEvwS8?si=oFQk9zbrnMAX7Nc5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite Chelsea\u2019s win, their performance was far from dominant. LAFC \u2014 led by World Cup winners Olivier Giroud and Hugo Lloris \u2014 created several chances through Denis Bouanga and substitute David Martinez, but lacked the clinical edge to convert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Off to a great start. \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l4t0MhLMle\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l4t0MhLMle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1934717169599664350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea&#8217;s next fixture in the US will be against Flamengo on Friday, while LAFC will face Esperance Tunis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea began their FIFA Club World Cup 2025 campaign with a 2-0 win over Los Angeles FC on Monday, though the atmosphere was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":493342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,24331,17672],"news_category":[136,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17902,24328,18621],"acf":{"news_source":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/delap-shines-on-chelsea-debut-beats-lafc-2-0-in-club-world-cup\/","link_picture":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/chelsea-pedro-neto.webp","announce":"Pedro Neto and Enzo Fernandes got on the scoreboard in Atlanta ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493372,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493341\/revisions\/493372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493341"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493341"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}