{"id":494128,"date":"2025-07-08T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=494128"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:04:25","slug":"joao-pedro-leads-chelsea-to-the-club-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joao-pedro-leads-chelsea-to-the-club-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Pedro leads Chelsea to the Club World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea defeated Fluminense 2-0 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, and will play in the final of the competition in the USA, as the big hero for the Blues was Joao Pedro, who scored a brace in his debut vs. his ex-team, as his career began in Fluminense.<\/p>\n<p>Joao Pedro scored his 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match with a phenomenal shot in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> minute as he didn\u2019t let any chance for the goalkeeper to save him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">See you in the final. \ud83d\udc4b\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HaKWi0QAly\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HaKWi0QAly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1942691125438890315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The most controversial moment in the game came when the Brazilian side received a penalty in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, but after VAR, the referee reversed his decision as he said that the player\u2019s hand was not in an unusual position.<\/p>\n<p>Joao Pedro eliminated the intrigue in the clash with his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the 56<sup>th<\/sup> minute. The Brazilian scored another phenomenal goal as his shot bounced in off the inside of the right post and again didn\u2019t celebrate as a respect to his ex-team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jo\u00e3o Pedro joined Fluminense when he was 9 years old and played there until 2019. \ud83d\udc9a<\/p>\n<p>Today, he scored his first goal for Chelsea \u2014 against his former club. \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7yf2W6Y8He\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7yf2W6Y8He<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1942668128158376406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will face either PSG or Real Madrid in the final of the Club World Cup, as the 2 European giants played against each other in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea defeated Fluminense 2-0 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, and will play in the final of the competition in the USA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":494129,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,21657],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,8372],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Brazilian scored twice against his former team.","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\/494128"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494130,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494128\/revisions\/494130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494128"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=494128"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=494128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}