Chelsea are gearing up for their 2025 Club World Cup opener against LAFC and Enzo Maresca's side have one thing on their mind - to win the competition.

The last side to book their place at the Club World Cup face off against one of the first to have stamped their passage to the United States on Sunday as Chelsea and Los Angeles FC meet at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Arena.

Chelsea will represent the Premier League in the FIFA Club World Cup off the back of winning the Europa Conference League and there is plenty of intrigue surrounding Enzo Maresca's side

CHELSEA star Cole Palmer proved he’s living the dream both on and off the pitch after rocking a £220,000 watch. As the Blues jetted off to the United States for the Club World Cup, Palmer

Chelsea play a Pep Guardiola-influenced style: a possession-focused, positional game. The nominal starting formation is a standard 4-3-3 but one of Maresca’s full-backs will usually ‘ invert’, often into the base of midfield and sometimes into one of the attacking half-spaces.

After Jesús Bueno's blast opened the scoring, Markus Anderson scored the last-second winner in his first MLS game in nearly a year. Cavan Sullivan set it up in an influential late-game cameo.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has laid down the importance of the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup campaign ahead of next week’s opening fixture against Wydad AC.City are representing the