Chelsea show how much the Club World Cup means to them in 3-0 win over Esperance De Tunisie on Tuesday

Philadelphia – The temperature reached 100 degrees in Philadelphia, but that did not stop Chelsea from achieving their goals and beating the tunisie with Esperance on Tuesday evening 3-0. The blues needed a point to secure passage to the round of 16, and despite the fact that Enzo Maresca changed the majority of the team after their disappointing loss for Flamengo, they did the job. In competitions such as the Club World Cup, a team sometimes just has to survive and move forward, and although that can be difficult to do at the end of a debilitating season, when a trophy is at stake, it is easy to regain the focus.

Some may see the club world cup as glorified friendly matches, but that is not how the players view it, especially now that the knockout phase is approaching. Chelsea wanted to ensure that they went on to the knockout phase, even after some players played more than 50 games for the club during the season on their way to winning the Europa Conference League and qualify for the Champions League.

This extensive tournament has a place in the summer schedule, and although concern about how many matches are placed on players’ legs are still there, that is not something they think about during the games, because the potential for glory grows with every victory.

“We do not treat this as a preseason, this is just another competition at the back of a regular season, and it is a major competition that we want to invade,” said Chelsea defender Tosin Adarabioyo after the game.

From new players such as Liam Delap who is integrated into the team to young players who show that they are ready for the next step in their career and everyone who wants to show Enzo Maresca that they earn it next season to be in Chelsea’s Champions League rotation, there is plenty to play for this tournament that a friendly friendship would not. Last season, unique, where Chelsea could have had almost two separate squadrons, a reserved for Conference League and the starters for Premier League promotion, but this coming season they must have a more standard team.

This can lead to some players moving at the club in the United States, while more new players can participate. It is the nature of football, but at the moment the focus is not on that; It is about winning a new trophy when the 2024-25 season ends. Holidays will wait when it is over, but they will be much nicer after more silverware.

Or, as Chelsea’s Benoit Badiashile expressed it: “If you have the chance to play in the club World Cup, you have to give 100%.”

If the blues did not give 100%, they would probably have lost lost to Esperance, who were supported by strong fan support during the match. Playing opposition where everyone wants to win and players do not photograph punishment, regardless of the result at the end of the game, is important. Although the actual pre -season tournaments try to make that aspect again, they cannot shake in the core that it is the president.

The World Cup Club is not. Although expansion has raised questions about whether certain clubs hear in the tournament, with Inter Miami that improves the round of 16, Botafogo Paris Saint-Germian fell over, and even Semipro-side Auckland City FC who takes on a point while Athletetico Madrid and Porto Crashten it is not to be a tournament, it is a tournament as a team phase as phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase phase give.

Add the special transfer window with which teams could take steps for this tournament, such as Chelsea who signed Liam Delap from the city of Ipswich, and it is a dream scenario for a new player to get in. Delap has been able to step in for the suspended Nicolas Jackson, scored his first Chelsea goal and with every day that passes, he comes closer to starting nine when the new Premier League season starts. That may not have happened so quickly without this tournament.

“This tournament really helped me to settle, because you know if we are back on the training field, everyone would disappear at three o’clock,” said Delap. “And here we are together all the time, so it’s a great way to settle, and everyone has really been helpful.”

Spending so much time on the club and for some teams to beat the heat, Subs have hung around in the changing rooms during the game, so that further binding creates opportunities to speed up the adjustment period that new players can have to a club. And a very real trophy at the end offers a lot of own motivation.

“That’s why I came to this club,” said Delap. “That’s why I started playing football to play on such large stages, so I’m really enthusiastic.”

Not all players will have the image of a 22-year-old who is looking for a team on a team, but this is the prevailing image of teams in the tournament. Nobody wants to lose these games, and even if it plays for the prize money, that is still a factor. Fans of non-European teams travel in large numbers to ensure that their squadrons are supported, but that only creates more growth opportunities for European parties playing in hostile environments against teams with which they are usually not confronted.

Only time will learn or that a boost comes for these clubs compared to those who go through a standard out of season, but at this stage they all want to be here and fight for the CWC trophy.