Romelu Lukaku fired Chelsea into the lead with just 30min of the game being played after a solo cross from Kai Havertz reflecting into path of the belguim star to make it his nineth goal of the season for Chelsea.
Chelsea pressed futher bro double the advantage early on after going up with 1-0 but ended the first half with 1-0, on getting into the 2nd half of the game as the Al-halil took cousory glance at everything that comes into there box, but lucky to have not conceded the second when Havertz low shot denied by woodwork.
Al-Halil missed a quite number of chance as kepa make sure to keep the scorline at 1-0 after Morega has been play in to tap in but was kept out by brilliant save from Chelsea goal keeper.
Another chances came in the way for the Saudia Arabia side after Kanno played a beautiful curling shot which likes to be going in but Kepa Arizzzabalaga made a great save to deny the striker.
The blues continues to hold off the pressure till the final whistle and reach there first ever club World Cup final in 11years but didnt win it back then after being beaten in the final by corinthians.
5 Things Sport Early Spotted and Learned from the Chelsea game with Al-Halil:
1. Needs to be Clinical in front of goal
Truly, the blues played so well and they are into the final of the tournament. Despite dominated the game all through there are some things that needs much improvement from the attacking end.
And if this poor trend continues against Palmerias, the might be caught through that and get punished for it though Palmerias counter. Palmerias are good with counters and have decent attacking forward who will took the game to Chelsea in the final.
Due to sluggishness in attack which must be dealt with ahead of the game, I think the head coach needs to address his player and venture out a decent shape to beat the Palmerias.
2. Don’t fall into thesame mistakes once again
We all know the south American always plays this tournament with all there whole heart and the blues can’t afford to fall back into the same mistake as 2012.
With Chelsea losing the final in 2012 due to lacks of missed chances and they were punished for it in the closing stage of the game as corinthians scored there only chance of the game to claim the trophy.
This tournament has been the only final in Chelsea history since Abramovich took over which was not won but have to complete the task now as they have the chance.
3. Havertz in fine form, Needs regularly starting
After being criticized for playing poor in his debut game for the club, he has stepped up his game ever since then, and silenced so many critics with his UCL final goal against Man City.
He continue this form with his country Germany in Euro 2020 but now looks the German player to have dealing with a stop-start this season. But today shows a glimpse of what Chelsea have been missing all this while with a brilliant performance.
He was unlucky not to have gotten on the scoresheet today with his clear chances hitting the woodwork. He was real threat all through the game both in air and the in the box, also making a lots of runs to create spaces for other players to come in.
4. Results more important than performance
Notwithstanding, Our last two recent games have been poor to the level of the game the blues really wanted to play, against Plymouth we are forced into extra time and finally a good result came out. the desired is to get the win no matter the performance of the game, now focus will be shifted to saturday final and a win by all means matters.
5. Lukaku not that bad
Every player has there quality no matter what, some critics might be coming over Romelu Lukaku performance but the belgian striker is not that bad when it comes hold up play, and mounting of pressure to the opposition defence while also making sure he try to get along with others. Well, it might so poor in performance but have worked earnestly to get the win got the team.
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