{"id":494087,"date":"2025-07-05T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=494087"},"modified":"2025-07-05T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:32:15","slug":"chelsea-reach-club-world-cup-semifinals-with-late-winner-against-palmeiras","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-reach-club-world-cup-semifinals-with-late-winner-against-palmeiras\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea reach Club World Cup semifinals with late winner against Palmeiras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea booked their place in the Club World Cup semifinals with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Palmeiras on Friday night, thanks to a late deflected strike by Malo Gusto in the 83rd minute. The match, played in front of 65,782 fans, saw 18-year-old Est\u00eav\u00e3o scoring for Palmeiras against the club he will soon join.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea star Cole Palmer opened the scoring in the 16th minute, slotting home a composed finish from a Trevoh Chalobah assist, but Est\u00eav\u00e3o, signed by Chelsea in 2023 and set to join the Blues after turning 18, drew Palmeiras level in the 53rd minute with a clinical angled finish.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UP THE CHELS!!! \ud83d\udd35\u270a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1PwOYBSBb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/L1PwOYBSBb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1941330897795678534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite scoring against his future team, the Brazilian youngster received warm embraces and encouragement from Palmer and other Chelsea players after the match.<\/p>\n<p>With extra time looming, Gusto\u2019s shot after a short corner ricocheted off Palmeiras defender Agustin Giay and goalkeeper Weverton, resulting in a FIFA-credited own goal that sealed the win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chelsea will face Fluminense in the Club World Cup semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Thiago Silva against his former team \u2694\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DO3ZQKcL0z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DO3ZQKcL0z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1941330388040970372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will remain stateside to face Fluminense in the semifinals on Tuesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Fluminense reached the final four with a 2-1 victory over Al Hilal earlier on Friday, with H\u00e9rcules netting the decisive goal in the 70th minute.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxtNjnimwrk?si=trX7pj5go73y7v_N\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea booked their place in the Club World Cup semifinals with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Palmeiras on Friday night, thanks to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":494088,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17155,24943],"news_category":[14235,136,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17902,20068,24944],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Blues will face another Brazilian team - Fluminense in a battle for a spot in the final of the tournament ","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\/494087"}],"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=494087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494090,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494087\/revisions\/494090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494087"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=494087"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=494087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}