{"id":70521,"date":"2025-07-14T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70521"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:20:00","slug":"club-world-cup-victory-chelsea-crushes-psg-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/club-world-cup-victory-chelsea-crushes-psg-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Club World Cup Victory: Chelsea Crushes PSG 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, in a stunning performance to claim the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup title has dismantled French giants; &#8220;Paris Saint-Germain&#8221; 3-0 in Sunday\u2019s final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer was the star of the show, scoring twice in the first half and assisting Jo\u00e3o Pedro for the third goal before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer\u2019s brilliance, combined with Chelsea\u2019s high pressing and tactical discipline, left PSG dazed and outplayed.<\/p>\n<p>The English side, who qualified by winning the UEFA Conference League, showed no inferiority complex against the European champions.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca outwitted PSG&#8217;s Luis Enrique with a game plan that frustrated the French side\u2019s attacking flair.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer opened the scoring in the 22nd minute and added a sublime second eight minutes later, before turning provider for Jo\u00e3o Pedro in the 43rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>PSG\u2019s woes deepened when Jo\u00e3o Neves was sent off in the 83rd minute for pulling Marc Cucurella\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s victory marks their second Club World Cup title, following their 2021 triumph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cEveryone doubted us, but we proved what we\u2019re capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For PSG, the loss exposes tactical vulnerabilities, as captain Marquinhos admitted: \u201cChelsea worked well on our slight weakness. We must learn and improve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Chelsea, in a stunning performance to claim the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup title has dismantled French giants; &#8220;Paris Saint-Germain&#8221; 3-0 in Sunday\u2019s final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Cole Palmer was the star of the show, scoring twice in the first half and assisting Jo\u00e3o Pedro for the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70522,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70521\/revisions\/70522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}