Chelsea vs LAFC – Club World Cup LIVE SCORE: Sanchez's huge save keeps Blues ahead after Neto's sublime opener
CHELSEA have taken the lead in their Club World Cup opener against LAFC!
Former Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris ' early double save temporarily kept the score on level terms.
But there was nothing the Frenchman could do about Pedro Neto's sensational strike after his mazy run.
And Liam Delap has now stepped onto the field to make his debut for the Blues.
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For all that this felt like a self-contained event from the start as the Boca fans took ownership of the day and the space, parking themselves like a mobile city state in the home of the Miami Dolphins and putting on a kind of faux-clasico in south Florida. The three hours before kick-off had seen the blue and yellow shirts streaming in across the vast sunken surrounds of the Hard Rock, all sandy scrub and baked tarmac, and decorated now with names like Riquleme, Cavani and Carlitos. The day before had seen a mass gathering in Miami beach, the Boca fans drinking fernet and coke, grilling great flapping skirts of meat, and subjected also to a flying banter banner reading, in Spanish, 'RIP YOU DIED IN MADRID 9/12/18', arranged by some extremely prescient and well organised River Plate fans, and a reference to defeat in the 2018 Copa Libertadores final. 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