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THINGS WE LEARNED from Chelsea's shock Club World Cup defeat: The one star who is secretly grateful for Nicolas Jackson's meltdown, Palmer experiment fails and which player should take the hint?

| Updated: 03:43 EDT, 21 June 2025

Chelsea's Club World Cup campaign took a turn for the worse on Friday night when Enzo Maresca's men fell to a shock 3-1 defeat at the hands of Flamengo.

The Brazilians are no pushovers, but the Premier League side should have got the job done to qualify for the knockouts, and looked well on their way to doing that when Pedro Neto struck his second goal of the competition early on.

But things went south, with Bruno Henrique, Danilo and Wallace Yan netting to ensure it was Flamengo who instead qualified.