Chelsea trounce PSG to lift FIFA Club World Cup

English Premier League broadside Chelsea bushed European champions Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 successful FIFA’s nine showpiece final.

Cole Palmer scored doubly and fed Joao Pedro for a extremity arsenic Chelsea overwhelmed Paris Saint-Germain successful the archetypal fractional and bushed the European champions 3-0 successful the final of the archetypal expanded FIFA Club World Cup.

Palmer had astir identical left-footed goals from conscionable wrong the punishment country successful the 22nd and 30th minutes connected Saturday, and past sent a done walk that enabled Pedro to spot goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma successful the 43rd for his 3rd extremity successful 2 starts with the Blues.

“It’s a large feeling. Even better, due to the fact that everyone doubted america earlier the game. We knew we had to enactment up a combat against a large team,” subordinate of the lucifer Palmer said afterwards.

Chelsea’s Cole Palmer scores their archetypal extremity against PSG [Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]

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 Joao Neves was fixed a reddish paper successful the 84th infinitesimal for pulling down Marc Cucurella by his hair. After a testy last fewer minutes, the teams needed to beryllium separated arsenic PSG manager Luis Enrique and Donnarumma pushed Pedro adjacent the centre 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.

Before a tournament-high assemblage of 81,188 astatine MetLife Stadium, which included United States President Donald Trump, Chelsea showed the vigor of a 4th time of remainder aft its semifinal, 1 much than PSG.

US President Donald Trump salutes alongside First Lady Melania Trump successful the stands, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his wife, Leena Al Ashqar, during the US nationalist anthem up of the lucifer [Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]

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 a seven-team event. The Blues earned $128.4m to $153.8m 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.

Chelsea went up successful the 22nd aft goalkeeper Robert Sanchez kicked the shot downfield and Nuno Mendes mis-hit his header 15 yards past the midfield stripe towards 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, and chopped wrong earlier shooting.

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.

Chelsea’s Joao Pedro scores their 3rd extremity past PSG’s Gianluigi Donnarumma [Brian Snyder/Reuters]

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