Enzo Maresca’s side may have lost to Flamengo but it is assumed that they will have more than enough quality to beat the Lisbon-based club, with football betting sites pricing Chelsea as 1/2 to qualify for the quarter-finals, versus odds of 6/4 for Benfica to go through.

Maresca has generally been reluctant to lean on the new faces in his squad for this CWC campaign, but Delap has been the exception.