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Chelsea's Cole Palmer celebrates with the trophy aft winning the FIFA Club World Cup.
Mike Segar | Reuters
EAST RUTHERFORD, N,J. — Cole Palmer scored doubly and fed João Pedro for a extremity arsenic Chelsea overwhelmed Paris Saint-Germain successful the archetypal fractional and bushed the European champions 3-0 connected Sunday successful the last of the archetypal expanded Club World Cup.
Palmer had astir identical left-footed goals from conscionable wrong the punishment country successful the 22nd and 30th minutes, past sent a done walk that enabled João Pedro to spot goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma successful the 43d for his 3rd extremity successful 2 starts with the Blues.
A 23-year-old who joined Chelsea from Manchester City 2 years ago, Palmer scored 18 goals this season.
PSG finished a antheral abbreviated aft João Neves was fixed a reddish paper successful the 84th infinitesimal for pulling down Marc Cucurella by his hair. After a testy last fewer minutes successful a crippled with six yellowish cards, the teams needed to beryllium separated arsenic PSG manager Luis Enrique and Donnarumma pushed João Pedro adjacent the halfway circle.
A dense favourite who had outscored opponents 16-1, PSG had been looking to implicit a quadruple aft winning Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and its archetypal Champions League title.
Chelsea had finished 4th successful the Premier League and won the third-tier UEFA Conference League. The Blues took the satellite rubric for the 2nd clip aft 2021, erstwhile it was an seven-team event. The Blues earned $128,435,000 to $153,815,000 successful prize money, the magnitude depending connected a information interest FIFA has not disclosed.
PSG had not mislaid by 3 goals since a 4-1 Champions League decision astatine Newcastle successful October 2023.
Key moments
Chelsea went up successful the 22nd aft goalkeeper Robert Sánchez kicked the shot downfield and Nuno Mendes mis-hit his header 15 yards past the midfield stripe toward his ain goal. Malo Gusto's changeable was blocked by Lucas Beraldo and rebounded to Palmer, who ended PSG's streak of 436 minutes without conceding.
Palmer doubled the pb successful the 30th erstwhile helium ran onto a agelong shot from Levi Colwill, chopped wrong earlier shooting.
Takeaways
Chelsea heads into the 2025-26 season, which starts successful little than 5 weeks, believing it tin situation Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal for the Premier League title.
They said it
"It's a large feeling," Palmer said. "Even amended due to the fact that evidently everyone doubted america earlier the game. ... The gaffer enactment a large gameplan retired and obviously, helium knew wherever the abstraction was going to be."
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