How to watch Chelsea vs ES Tunis live: Stream link, TV channel, team news, prediction
A win or a draw will see Chelsea through to the knockout rounds of the 2025 Club World Cup on Tuesday (9 pm ET), when the Blues close out Group D play against Tunisian side Esperance de Tunis.
MORE — 2025 Club World Cup schedule, results, tables, how to watch live
One goal is all that separates Chelsea (2nd place) from ES Tunis (3rd) heading into Tuesday's pivotal finale at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Brazilian side Flamengo has already clinched the top spot in Group D with wins over both sides.
MORE — How much prize money will each club get at Club World Cup?
Chelsea led after Pedro Neto opened the scoring in the 13th minute and that lasted until the hour mark on Friday, but the Blues conceded back-to-back goals in the 62nd and 65th, before Nicolas Jackson was sent off in the 68th and Flamengo added a third in the 83rd.
Group D standings
Flamengo — 6 points (+4 GD) — CLINCHED GROUP D
Chelsea — 3 points (0 GD)
Esperance de Tunis — 3 points (-1 GD)
LAFC — 0 points (-3 GD) — ELIMINATED
How to watch Chelsea vs ES Tunis live, stream link and start time
Kick off time: 9 pm ET Tuesday (June 24)
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
TV Channel/Streaming: Watch live on DAZN, for free
Chelsea team news, focus
OUT: Wesley Fofana (undisclosed), Omari Kellyman (hamstring)
ES Tunis team news, focus
Tunisian champions eight of the last nine seasons, including the last two, Esperance picked up their first win of the Club World Cup on Friday as they beat MLS side LAFC 1-0 at GEODIS Park in Nashville, Tennessee. Algerian international Youcef Belaili scored the game's only goal in the 70th minute. The 33-year-old scored 20 goals in 37 games during the most recent season, his first at the club.
Chelsea vs ES Tunis prediction
Perhaps the collapse against Flamengo will be a wake-up call; perhaps an indicator of more struggles to come. Not yet, but soon (in the next round, when they face Bayern Munich). Chelsea 2-0 ES Tunis.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
The Messi Effect meets the Club World Cup: Inter Miami's legend scores game-winning goal to upset Porto
Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the 2025 Club World Cup, a stunning free kick that proved to be the difference against Porto. (Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images) ATLANTA — For more than 20 years, one rule has governed international soccer: the more Messi, the better. Whether you're fighting for eyeballs, relevance or legitimacy, having Leo Messi's godlike stature — and 500 million Instagram followers — in your corner solves a whole lot of problems. So it wasn't a real surprise to anyone paying attention that FIFA turned to Messi as a way of kickstarting interest in the 2025 Club World Cup. Last October, FIFA announced that Messi's Inter Miami club would host the Club World Cup's inaugural match, despite not qualifying under any established criteria. FIFA's reasoning was obvious, cynical and — judging by the 60,000-plus in attendance at Saturday's CWC debut — highly profitable. Advertisement The real test of Messi's drawing power came five days later, on a rainy Thursday afternoon in Atlanta. Inter Miami faced a favored FC Porto in the second match of their group stage, jumped out to a 2-1 lead, and hung on through a furious finish, plus seven long minutes of stoppage time, to leave Atlanta with an impressive, crucial 2-1 victory. Porto struck first, thanks to a penalty against Miami's Noah Allen that gave Samu Aghehowa a penalty kick he drove home. That 1-0 lead held up through the first half, with FC Porto keeping the older Miami squad in check. 'In the second half we changed and said, let's compete, let's try to play our game,' Messi told DAZN in Spanish after the match. 'We know we were the underdogs today, but we have our weapons.' Just two minutes into the second half, Inter Miami's Telasco Segovia scored the equalizer on a brilliant cross from Marcelo Weigandt: And then came one of those Messi moments that make soccer so compelling and Messi himself so magnetic. In the 58th minute, Messi fired a free kick that seemed piloted by a drone, well outside the reach of Porto goalkeeper Claudio Ramos: Those are the moments why Messi's armada watches, the moments soccer fans admire, the moments FIFA craves. Messi's kick might be the moment so far of the still-young tournament — admittedly, a low bar to clear — and if this tournament can harness more of the jolt that Messi's goal sent through the crowd, the Club World Cup will be on a much more solid foundation. Advertisement 'We already know the player he is,' Inter Miami winger Fafá Picault said of Messi afterward. 'We all do our best to make sure that we can support him in the best way and we all have to do our part as well. He's a great leader and an amazing player obviously, like we all know, and it's great that he's on our side.' 'He's the player who guides us in how to compete,' Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano said in Spanish after the match. 'His hunger, his resilience, his desire to continue competing at any level, he guides us, he shows us where we need to go.' Thursday's attendance still didn't approach anything near sellout levels, though the Mercedes-Benz Stadium seats were markedly more full than Monday's echoing, sparse Chelsea-LAFC match. Some of the same rationales applied for this match: high ticket prices plus a 3 p.m. weekday kickoff aren't exactly conducive to a full stadium experience. On the other hand, if Lionel freaking Messi can't draw fans to the Club World Cup, who can? Messi has filled Mercedes-Benz before; his Inter Miami debut was a sellout despite the fact that he didn't play, and Messi and Argentina lit up Atlanta at last year's Copa América tournament. FIFA announced attendance at Thursday's match of 31,783 — almost 10,000 more than Monday — and about half seemed to be wearing Messi's Inter Miami or Argentina kits. Chants of 'MES-SI!' thundered through the stadium throughout the second half. Advertisement That's the key to Messi's power: regardless of the results of any one match, he's transcended both the game and national loyalties the way few others have. You don't have to know a single other player on Messi's Inter Miami squad to root for them; their association with Messi is enough. Off the pitch, Messi remains a PR force of nature. In the two years since he joined Inter Miami for a twilight-of-his-career payday, he's become a marketing behemoth in the United States, appearing in Super Bowl ads and crossing over with Patrick Mahomes and others in a bid to introduce American soccer skeptics to what the rest of the world has known for two decades. Advertisement As Boardroom noted earlier this week, Messi rocketed Inter Miami's valuation and popularity into orbit; the club is now worth $1.2 billion, nearly double what it was before Messi signed in 2023. Inter Miami now ranks second behind only LAFC in valuation among MLS clubs, and its 17.3 million Instagram followers dwarf every other MLS squad. (LA Galaxy ranks second at 1.5 million.) The vexing question now facing FIFA is just how long the Club World Cup will be able to leverage all that popularity. Messi and Inter Miami will enjoy a return to Miami for the conclusion of the group stage, though they'll face a significant challenge from Palmeiras. If Inter Miami manage to advance, they face either another date in Atlanta or a trip to Philadelphia, depending on their group standing. The Messi Effect remains a powerful force in American soccer, but the Messi Effect can't solve all problems. Messi is the closest thing soccer has to a cheat code, but there are no shortcuts to establishing a soccer foundation in the United States. If the Club World Cup is going to take flight this year, and if the World Cup is to connect on a national scale in 2026, FIFA is going to need help from a whole lot more than just Messi. Even at age 37, he still can do virtually anything, but he can't do everything.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Club World Cup: Inter Miami validates the Messi project, but proves an exception to the MLS rule
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — For Major League Soccer, the Club World Cup was a test. 'A chance,' MLS commissioner Don Garber said, 'for us to showcase our growing competitiveness on the global stage.' And on that stage, last Thursday in Atlanta and Monday here at Hard Rock Stadium, Inter Miami passed the test in historic fashion. It advanced to the Club World Cup's Round of 16 with a 2-2 draw against Brazilian power Palmeiras. It nearly won Group A, having beaten FC Porto last week, 2-1. 'We [showed] the world,' Miami head coach Javier Mascherano said after the Porto win, 'that we can compete against any team.' Advertisement "We showed," defender Noah Allen said Monday, "that we can hang." But what, exactly, did MLS show? Hours before Inter Miami survived Group A, the Seattle Sounders bowed out of Group B without a point. LAFC, the third of three MLS teams, crashed out of Group D before it even got to a decisive third game. Nine countries sent multiple representatives to this novel Club World Cup. On a points per match basis, collectively, the U.S. and Mexican reps have been the worst. CONCACAF, the region encompassing North and Central America, has been outpaced by South America and Africa. Its teams have been competitive, but results have been underwhelming. Advertisement The only exception to the rule, thus far, has been Inter Miami. Which makes sense. Inter Miami is the exception to many MLS rules. It has Lionel Messi, who earns more money than any other MLS club's entire roster. He has won more career trophies than MLS has played seasons. He has elevated Inter, on and off the field, to this stage, and to levels the league has never known. The question, then, is whether their progress to the Club World Cup's knockout stage says all that much about the league's broader progress. Built in his image Messi is also the primary reason Inter has performed onstage. He has elevated the Herons with his on-ball brilliance, with his goals and gravity, with his alien-like skills — but also indirectly and intangibly. He propelled them to Thursday's win over Porto with a classic free kick, but 'beyond the goal,' Mascherano said, 'he's a player who guides us. His hunger, his resilience, his desire to continue competing at any level — he shows us where we need to go.' Advertisement He has elevated Inter Miami over the past two years with his aura, his standards and his professionalism. The team, Mascherano said, has been 'infected by his spirit, his winning spirit.' Homegrown kids have played beyond their years and above their pedigrees. On Thursday, an unbalanced squad won as a coherent, confident unit. On Monday, it was sturdy and cohesive for 80 minutes yet again. It is unbalanced, of course, because MLS roster regulations and spending caps make it so. Messi, though, has been the ultimate workaround. He lured three former Barcelona teammates to Miami, two of them — Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba — on under-market contracts. He also wooed several young South Americans, who came, in part, for a chance to play with the GOAT. His god-like pull made recruitment 'much easier,' former Inter Miami sporting director Chris Henderson told Yahoo Sports last year. Luis Suarez extended Inter Miami's lead over Palmeiras with a brilliant solo goal, helping the MLS side advance to the Club World Cup's Round of 16. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA via Getty Images) The end product was the best roster in league history; the most regular-season points in league history; and on Thursday, the first win by an MLS club over a European counterpart in official competition. Advertisement That Porto win was a dream-like showcase for a 5-year-old club with grand ambition. Sunday's Round of 16 match against PSG, the European champion, will be another. It will further validate the Messi project, which began with a years-long courtship. It will boost Inter's brand globally. What it will do for MLS is up for debate. Messi and Inter Miami have become so distinct, so distinguishable from the rest of the league, that Seattle and LAFC probably tell a more accurate story. 'Nowadays, any team can compete with you' Seattle and LAFC have played five games and lost all five. LAFC could make it six on Tuesday against Flamengo. On paper, it's a semi-humiliating haul for MLS. On the field, however, it has been more respectable. Advertisement The Sounders bowed out with pride. In a 2-1 loss to Botafogo, they nearly overwhelmed the Brazilian champions in search of a second-half equalizer. Against Atlético Madrid and PSG, they never looked capable of winning; but they never looked comically overmatched either. Cristian Roldan and Obed Vargas battled with some of the best midfielders in the world. Their only glaring defect was the lack of a dynamic forward — in part because their best one, Jordan Morris, missed almost all of the tournament due to injury. LAFC also held its own against Chelsea. Its downfall was a downright ugly performance against what was, per Opta, the 258th-ranked team in the world, Espérance Tunis. LAFC's 1-0 loss to the Tunisian champs was the biggest stain on MLS at the Club World Cup. For all the league's talk of challenging Europe's Big Five, and perhaps even reaching soccer's summit in a decade, its top teams remain roughly on par with the kings of overlooked leagues on other continents. They also don't spend enough money on enough difference-makers. In the Sounders case, academy product Paul Rothrock was perfectly capable of hassling defenders. But no one was capable of doing what Botafogo striker Igor Jesus did, or what Chelsea's Pedro Neto did to LAFC. 'Nowadays, any team can compete with you,' Jordi Alba said Sunday. 'Physically, they're all [mostly] on par.' Advertisement It's individual quality that so often tips or wins games. And that's what MLS clubs don't have quite enough of. Superteam, still standing The exception, once again, is Inter Miami. Even beyond Messi, beyond Sergio Busquets, it has Suarez, who astutely created Monday's opening goal. It has Tadeo Allende, an Argentine winger signed from Celta Vigo in Spain's La Liga, who sprinted away from the Palmeiras defense and finished. Inter, a 2020 expansion franchise, has nowhere near the history of Palmeiras or Al Ahly. It has nowhere near the social impact. It has been a quasi-away team twice in its own city at this Club World Cup. The tournament has reinforced just how young MLS clubs are, and just how much deeper the passion for soccer is elsewhere. Advertisement But MLS had the infrastructure; Miami had the lifestyle; Inter owner Jorge Mas had the relationships and the money. They attracted Messi. Together, they assembled an MLS superteam. Together, over three games, they were better than the most powerful club in Africa, and just as good as perhaps the most powerful in South America. Suarez seemed to finish the job with a bulldozing run, straight through the heart of the Palmeiras defense. His 65th-minute goal triggered triumphant celebrations. Subs spilled over the sideline. Players and coaches and owners pumped their fists, as if to punctuate Inter Miami's statement. Instead, Palmeiras punctuated the night with a comeback. With two late goals, O Verdão stormed back to the top of Group A. Advertisement Speaking postgame, Miami players expressed "bittersweet" disappointment. And speaking the day before, presciently, Mascherano explained a difference between the two squads that ultimately swung the game. While Inter Miami's depth is constrained by MLS regulations, Palmeiras "has two or even three options per position, at a very high level," Mascherano said. Two of those options, Paulinho and Mauricio, came off the bench to reclaim first place — whereas Inter Miami's subs, such as Fafà Picault, squandered chances to put the game away. But Inter escaped nonetheless, into the knockout rounds, toward the bigger and better things it wants to chase. And its statement held up, battered by Palmeiras but, in the end, unblemished. "When we started this tournament, we were convinced that we can play our football," Mascherano said postgame. "We knew we were going to play against teams with maybe more quality than us — maybe teams that, normally, in their domestic league, they have more competitive games. But I think we [were able] to show the world that we can compete when we're [united]." Allen added: "This tournament was made for all the teams around the world to compete and showcase their talent. And I think that's what we're doing. We're showcasing how we can play, and how we can compete at the top level against the top teams."
NBC Sports
an hour ago
- NBC Sports
How to watch Juventus vs Manchester City live: Stream link, TV channel, team news, prediction
Juventus and Manchester City square off in Orlando for top spot in Group G on Thursday. Both teams have already qualified for the last 16 after winning their opening two games of the competitions. The group winner will likely face Red Bull Salzburg in the last 16, while the runner up is set to face Real Madrid and then be on the same side of the bracket as Inter Milan and PSG. A draw is enough for Juventus to clinch top spot in the group and give themselves an easier path in the knockout rounds, while City have to win to secure the more advantageous route. Pep Guardiola has rotated heavily so far as City eased past Wydad AC 2-0 and then hammered Al Ain 6-0 last time out. New signings Rayan Ait-Nouri, Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders have all impressed. Juventus beat Al Ain 5-0 and Wydad 4-1 to have the edge on City on the tiebreaker of goals scored with the teams level on goal difference. USMNT star Weston McKennie has been key so far in midfield with Tim Weah coming off the bench in the opening game, while Kenan Yildiz and Randal Kolo Muani have been a real threat in attack. This clash against City is a great test to see where this new-look Juventus are at under Igor Tudor. How to watch Juventus vs Manchester City live, stream link and start time Kick off time: 3pm ET Thursday (June 26) Venue: Camping World Stadium — Orlando, Florida TV Channel/Streaming: Watch live on DAZN, for free Juventus team news, focus There have been plenty of changes at Juventus over the last 12 months and since Igor Tudor took charge in March he is making his mark with a 3-4-2-1 formation. Fabio Conceicao and Yildiz have dazzled in the playmaking roles, while Kolo Muani is perfect to link everything up in attack. When you look at Juve's bench they now have a much deeper squad and they are more than capable of digging in for the draw they need to win the group. Manchester City team news, focus City have so many options and Pep Guardiola has already made the point that they need to reduce their massive squad before the 2025-26 season kicks off. New signings Cherki and Ait Nouri impressed in the win against Al Ain and City will be hoping Phil Foden continues to get back to his best and Rodri's recovery from a long-term injury can be cranked up a few notches. So far City have looked very solid defensively but they are about to be tested massively against Juve's talented, and rapid, attackers. Juventus vs Manchester City prediction This is going to be really tight considering what is on the line. Expect City to get the job done as Erling Haaland looks hungry and won't miss the chances he did in the last game. Juventus 1-2 Manchester City.
