Hired last week, the brand new signing of the Londinenses graduated from the figure in his first starting match with the blues with two goals of great invoice (18 and 56 minutes) under the heat that burned the Metlife Stadium, on the outskirts of New York.
Chelsea will face in the final, on Sunday again at the East Rutherford stadium, the winner of this Wednesday’s game between Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.
The elimination was doubly painful for the Rio de Janeiro team, a great revelation of the renewed FIFA tournament, which reached the semifinals with three sensitive casualties, those of the defenses Samuel Xavier and Juan Pablo Freytes and that of the Martinelli steering wheel.
Not only was left at the doors of the final, which will be European, but a footballer of his entries ended the illusion of fighting for the crown.
Figure friend
Signed in full vacation from the Brighton, João Pedro squeezed his first appearance in the initial eleven – and his second game – under the orders of the Italian coach Enzo Maresca.
The 23 -year -old Brazilian striker, author of ten goals in 27 games in the last Premier League, won the game in the eleven to Senegalese Nicolas Jackson to replace the sanctioned Liam Delap.
And he did not miss the opportunity, although it is a “xerém moleque”, as the players emerged in the Tricolor Carioca, which he defended professionally in 2019 before leaving for the English football.
Nightmare for the right wing of the Flu, which suffered the absence of the side Samuel Xavier, injured, the Portuguese end Pedro Neto commanded a counter that culminated with a center cleared by the incombustible captain Thiago Silva towards the edge of the area.
From there João Pedro caught the ball and, without any mark, settled and released a right to the distant stick of the veteran Fábio goalkeeper, unable to stop the shot despite a colossal stretch.
There was no score and asked for excuses with their hands, but the Cariocas felt the blow. Net continued to torment the side GUGA and, in another center at 21 minutes, the bad taste tested Fábio with a header.
Carioca burial
That action removed the South Americans, interugos from Inter Milan in the round of 16 and the Saudi Hilal in the quarterfinals.
In his first associative play against 70,556 spectators, before the first half hour, Fluminense per little marks the tables.
Hercules, replacement for the suspended Martinelli, received a pass from the Argentine Germán Cano within the area that goalkeeper Robert Sánchez took to intercept. The steering wheel came to tap her and the ball was clear in the arc line by the side Marc Cucurella.
Then, the Flu was excited about parity when referee François Letexier decreed a penalty by a hand of the trail trevoh chabah, but reversed the decision after a call of the VAR.
The Cariocas, oriented by Renato Portaluppi, again had action at the beginning of the second part (55), in a recovery of the Colombian attacker Jhon Arias.
The coffee maker, team engine, launched a long ball that left the revulsive Everaldo with Sánchez, but the Spanish goalkeeper avoided equality.
The impulse was a mirage, because the Chelsea, punishment of the Palmeiras de Sao Paulo in rooms, was fresher in the second half and more comfortable playing against a rival who returned to the line of four defenses to try to tie.
In a backlash commanded by Argentine Enzo Fernández, João Pedro repeated the 1-0 film: irrigation, this time inside the area, which hit the crossbar and fulminated Fabio. And new apologies.
Fluminense, a team with economic potential much lower than that of most of his rivals in the World Cup, continued kicking, although hanging, before an opponent who by little signs a win at a shot of the extreme Christopher Nkunku (65) that Thiago Silva cleared in the line.
ALIGNMENTS:
Fluminense: Fábio – Ignácio, Thiago Silva, Thiago Santos (Marcos da Silva, 54) – GUGA, Hercules (Lima, 69), Facundo Bernal (Agustín Canobbio, 70), Nonato (Yeferson Soteldo, 66), René – Jhon Arias, Germán Cano (Everaldo, 54). DT: Renato Portaluppi.
Chelsea: Robert Sánchez – Mal Taste (Reece James, 68), Trevoh Chabah, Tosin Adarabioyo, Marc Cucurella – Pedro Neto (Noni Madueke, 68), Moisés Caicedo, Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernández (Kiernan Dewsbury -Hall, 86), Christopher Nkunku (Andrey Santos, 86) – João Pedro (Nicolas Jackson, 60). DT: Enzo Maresca.
