Who: Chelsea vs Palmeiras
What: FIFA Membership World Cup quarterfinals
The place: Lincoln Monetary Area, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
When: Friday, July 4 at 9pm (01:00 GMT, July 5)
Methods to comply with: We’ll have all of the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 6pm native (22:00 GMT) prematurely of our reside textual content commentary stream.
The second quarterfinal of the 2025 FIFA Membership World Cup pits English Premier League membership Chelsea towards Brazil’s Palmeiras.
Al Jazeera Sport takes a have a look at whether or not the match-up is a repeat of the 2021 closing, which the Blues received 2-1 within the United Arab Emirates.
How did Chelsea attain the quarterfinals?
Chelsea picked up wins towards Los Angeles and ES Tunis within the group stage to seal their qualification for the knockout rounds, though they did slip to a 3-1 defeat to a different Brazilian membership, Flamengo, to concede the highest spot.
That handed the Blues a difficult all-European spherical of 16 tie towards Benfica, which required additional time for the London-based membership to progress with a 4-1 win.
A two-hour delay, with Chelsea main 1-0 with 4 minutes of regular time to play, for close by lightning was removed from splendid in what has already proved a draining summer season match.
How did Palmeiras attain the quarterfinals?
Two attracts, towards Corinthians and Porto, and a closing match win towards Al Ahly have been sufficient for Palmeiras to progress to the final 16 of the match.
The price of ending second within the group, behind Porto, meant an all-Brazilian tie with Botafogo within the first knockout spherical.
Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Paulinho got here off the bench to attain the one aim of the sport in additional time to ship Palmeiras by means of.
Who may Chelsea and Palmeiras face within the semifinals?
The winners of the primary quarterfinal between Brazil’s Fluminense and Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal, performed earlier within the day, await the winners of the second last-eight tie.
Who completes the Membership World Cup quarterfinal lineup?
Paris Saint-Germain towards Bayern Munich and Actual Madrid towards Borussia Dortmund full the quarterfinal lineup, with the winners of these ties dealing with one another within the semifinals.
Can Joao Pedro play for Chelsea on the CWC?
Sure. Chelsea signed ahead Joao Pedro from Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday and will make his debut for the London-based membership within the quarterfinals.
Monetary particulars weren’t disclosed, however British media reported that the deal was value 60 million kilos ($81.54m).
“Everybody is aware of it is a large membership with a terrific historical past,” the Brazilian, who has signed an eight-year contract, stated in a press release.
“They’d good gamers prior to now and have good gamers now. So I’m excited to hitch, and if you end up a Chelsea participant you could suppose one factor – win.”
The 23-year-old joined Brighton from Watford in 2023 and has scored 30 objectives and supplied 10 assists in 70 appearances for the south-coast membership.
He has additionally made three appearances for Brazil’s senior crew.
Chelsea captain Reece James’s pre-match ideas
“We’ve come a good distance. It was tough to be so near the top of the match after which have a kick within the enamel like that once we misplaced a late aim. We needed to choose ourselves up and brush ourselves down – and to then rating just a few objectives in additional time after the delay most likely reveals how far we’ve come, and everybody has performed a component.”
Palmeiras coach Abel Ferreira’s pre-match ideas
“By no means quit, by no means give in. On a regular basis, we work for this. I wish to say thanks to my gamers for all their efforts. We had a tremendous recreation towards Botafogo. After we wanted to undergo, we suffered along with one participant much less. We deserved it as a result of we work quite a bit.”
Subsequent up: #FIFACWC Quarter-Finals. 🔜 pic.twitter.com/T49Cj3bOOy
— FIFA Membership World Cup (@FIFACWC) July 2, 2025
Chelsea crew information
Chelsea welcome again striker Nicolas Jackson after a two-game ban for his sending off within the defeat by Flamengo.
Moises Caicedo, nevertheless, sits out the tie after choosing up a yellow card within the win towards Benfica.
Palmeiras crew information
Paulinho is ready to have surgical procedure on his leg after the match, so, regardless of his successful aim within the final spherical, the midfielder is ready to stay among the many substitutes.
Palmeiras may even be with out the providers of the suspended Uruguayan Joaquin Piquerez.
Estevao, who is ready to hitch Chelsea following the finals, will, nevertheless, be capable to play.
Head-to-head
That is solely the second assembly between the perimeters following Chelsea’s 2-1 win within the 2021 Membership World Cup closing.
Romelu Lukaku and Kai Havertz scored for the Blues, both aspect of Raphael Veiga’s Sixty fourth-minute penalty, to settle the match that went to additional time. Luan was despatched off for Palmeiras for a second yellow card within the closing minute of the match.
Kind information – Chelsea’s final 5 video games:
W-W-L-W-W
Kind information – Palmeira’s final 5 video games:
D-D-W-D-W
Chelsea doable beginning lineup:
Sanchez; James (c), Badiashile, Colwill, Cucurella; Essugo, Lavia; Palmer, Fernandez, Pedro Neto; Jackson
Palmeiras doable beginning lineup:
Weverton (c); Giay, Micael, Bruno Fuchs; Mayke, Rios, Martinez, Vanderlan; Allan, Vitor Roque, Estevao
