Pedro Neto insisted Chelsea would quite be enjoying within the Membership World Cup than mendacity on the seashore.
Neto was talking following Chelsea’s 3-1 defeat to Flamengo of their second recreation of the revamped match happening throughout the US.
The Portugal worldwide notched his second purpose of the competitors within the thirteenth minute at Lincoln Monetary Area to place the Blues forward on Friday.
However two targets in three minutes from Bruno Henrique and Danilo turned the sport on its head, with Chelsea substitute Nicolas Jackson then despatched off within the 68th minute.
Wallace Yan concluded the scoring seven minutes from time, that means Chelsea have to beat Tunisian facet Esperance Sportive de Tunis on Tuesday to succeed in the final 16.
Flamengo’s victory noticed them change into the second South American group to defeat a European facet by a number of targets on the Membership World Cup after Vasco da Gama in 2000.
Neto conceded that Flamengo had extra need than Chelsea, however when requested if he would favor to be on the Membership World Cup or resting, he replied: “[Yes], 100% positive.
“Now we have to be grateful. We’re right here enjoying this match. There could be lots of gamers that might like to be in my place and within the different place. Now we have to get pleasure from it.”
Chelsea appeared on the right track to construct on their victory of their opening recreation of the match in opposition to Los Angeles FC after a robust begin within the first half.
They registered an anticipated targets (xG) whole of 0.65 to Flamengo’s 0.2, although their opponents had extra pictures on track than Enzo Maresca’s group (4 to 3).
However the Brazilian outfit dominated after the break and, helped by Jackson’s dismissal, had an xG tally of two.41 to Chelsea’s 0.46 within the second half.
“What went flawed was the second half. To be sincere, within the first half perhaps that they had extra management of the ball, however we might create the probabilities greater than them,” Neto mentioned.
“And after we went to the second half, we tried to press a little bit bit increased.
“We began nicely within the second half, however what made the distinction was a little bit bit the will and so they had extra need than us to win the sport.”
