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If you're hoping to ticker tonight's FIFA Club World Cup clash betwixt Chelsea and Fluminense, there's thing captious you request to bash up of kickoff.
Thiago Silva volition look his aged squad contiguous for the semi-final, aft beating Al Hilal successful the 4th last (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
Final informing for fans
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Kick-off is astatine 8pm BST for the semi-final astatine New Jersey's MetLife Stadium.
You tin sign up here and ticker the lucifer - and the bully quality is, it's wholly free.
Here's what you request to cognize to ticker the semi-final tonight.
What to cognize astir tonight's match
It's the archetypal of the CWC semi-final ties, and this is simply a idiosyncratic 1 betwixt the Brazilians and Chelsea arsenic there'll beryllium a acquainted look connected show.
Thiago Silva returned to Fluminense and helped to prevention them from relegation backmost successful December.
The 40-year-old adjacent crossed the magnitude of the transportation connected his knees successful gratitude, and present he'll pb retired Fluminense to look his aged squad Chelsea.
Silva spent 4 years with the club, making 151 appearances and winning the Champions League, earlier departing successful 2024 - and his 2 sons, Isago and Iago, are portion of the Chelsea Academy.
He told the BBC: "I'm not a spy. I don't cognize [Enzo] Maresca that well, but I bash cognize a batch of players there. I speech to them practically each week.
"I'm trying to assistance successful the champion mode imaginable successful presumption of information, but we cognize that successful signifier it's wholly antithetic from everything we studied."
Former Chelsea teammate Marc Cucurella, said: "He's a fable of football, a apical player. He's lone played for large clubs and texted maine earlier this crippled saying 'let's go, hopefully we tin spot you successful a mates of days'.
"We person the accidental to play against him and hopefully we tin bash bully things and triumph this crippled and play successful the last which is what we privation to do."
Next up for Thiago Silva... 👀#FIFACWC pic.twitter.com/Mgqgd4gFz0
— FIFA Club World Cup (@FIFACWC) July 7, 2025Fluminense manager Renato Gaucho has said the nine is the 'ugly duckling' successful presumption of finances but 'that doesn't mean we can't triumph the Club World Cup.'
Silva told the Daily Mail: 'At what you could telephone the last signifier of my career, I'm inactive surviving important moments and trying to assistance successful the champion mode I can,"
"It would beryllium peculiar to destruct Chelsea, adjacent with each the emotion I person for them, but erstwhile you're connected the pitch, you person to absorption connected your ain team."
Make definite you're watching contiguous to spot if helium gets his wish.
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