CHARLOTTE -- A season that has felt like it could go on forever now has a match which almost did. However much Chelsea feared their Club World Cup campaign could turn into a long slog, nothing could have prepared them for this: a game which finished four hours and 38 minutes after it began.
Saturday's -- yes, just checking it is still Saturday -- 4-1 win over Benfica set up a quarterfinal against Palmeiras next Friday after Christopher Nkunku, Pedro Neto and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall all struck in extra-time to settle one of the most truncated matches in history.