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Full-time: Chelsea 3-0 PSG
Chelsea have easily beaten the Champions League winners! Chelsea are the Club World Cup champions!
90+4 min: Sanchez comes out of his goal to clear a loose ball and so nearly gifts possession to Goncalo Ramos! The Chelsea keeper has had an exceptional game – he might even be player of the match if Palmer hadn’t scored twice and registered an assist – but that was nearly a familiar error.
90+2 min: The Chelsea fans are singing ‘olé’ as they cheer every pass. PSG are cooked.
90 min: Five minutes added on. Remember that is also accommodate the cooling break we had for the players at 70 minutes.
89 min: Despite being depleted, PSG continue to pour forward and Goncalo Ramos has a wonderful chance to get one back for the French side but fluffs his lines at the back post. It was a glorious cross from Barcola, but Goncalo Ramos skewed his finish and Cucurella was about to clear the loose ball!
87 min: PSG manager Luis Enrique looks resigned on the sidelines. This is a disappointing end to what has been a sensational season.
ShareRED CARD FOR PSG’S NEVES!
The referee really has no choice. It’s violent conduct and Neves has no complaints as he jogs off the pitch. He completely lost his head, and with 10 men, surely PSG have now lost this final!
Paris St Germain’s Joao Neves is shown a red card. Photograph: Lee Smith/ReutersShare
Updated at 23.07 CEST
POTENTIAL RED CARD!
An off-the-ball incident, as Neves clashes with Cucurella. There was some bad blood between the pair after that earlier foul and replays show that Neves deliberately pulled the hair of the Spaniard! The referee is going across to check the monitor, but this is surely going to be a sending off!
Joao Neves tugs on Cucurella’s mane. Red card incoming… Photograph: Seth Wenig/APShare
Updated at 23.10 CEST
83 min: Yellow card for Colwill, who is given the slip by Zaire-Emery in midfield. There is a brief scuffle as Caicedo tries to intervene in the aftermath, but the referee breaks it up.
81 min: Sanchez, who is having the game of his life, collects a cross and with another expert Ederson-esque punt upfield, releases Delap. The English striker outmuscles Marquinhos, putting the Brazilian on the turf and is one on one with Donnarumma. Delap tries to round the keeper, but Donnarumma gets a toe on a low shot, and PSG escape conceding a fourth!
79 min: Dembele is dropping VERY deep, as he tries to have some effect on the game. The Frenchman has been almost anonymous so far.
77 min: The game has become a scrappy one, which is exactly how Chelsea will want it. The Blues make a double change, with Christopher Nkunku and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall on for Reece James and Pedro Neto.
75 min: Pinball around the Chelsea box as PSG get to the byline down the right and try repeatedly to punt a cross into the box. Andrey Santos blocks with the his midriff amid weak claims for a PSG penalty before Cucurella buys a cheap free-kick under pressure from Neves. That was probably a dive, and nobody in PSG colours seems particularly happy about it.
72 min: After that brief break, PSG have made a triple change! Hakimi, Doue, Fabian Ruiz are off. Zaire Emery, Mayulu, and Goncalo Ramos are on!
Dembele has moved to the right, so that means the PSG front three from left to right is now: Barcola, Goncalo Ramos, Dembele. Time is running out.
70 min: Another cooling break, as the players take on fluids and instructions in the 28°C heat.
69 min: Delap so nearly scores with his first involvement of the game! The Englishman picks up the ball deep in PSG territory, drives at the French defence and pings a beauty of a shot towards the top corner … saved by Donnarumma! Most keepers wouldn’t get near that effort but the Italian dives to his left and saves with his ‘wrong’ right hand, somehow tipping it wide. Ooooof.
67 min: Chelsea make another sub: Delap for João Pedro, who was absolutely brilliant in that first half but is perhaps a little fatigued.
65 min: Neto, on a yellow card remember, is fortunate not to get another booking for a cynical tug on Doue as the Frenchman canters down the right wing for PSG.
63 min: “Is it just me, or does Luis Enrique bear more than a passing resemblance to Rufus Sewell?” chimes Mike Wilner.
I can see it!
Rufus Sewell in The Diplomat. Photograph: NetflixShare
61 min: Chelsea make a change: Fernandez is off for Andrey Santos, who so impressed for Strasbourg last season. Lavia is obviously not fit, as I’m sure he would be the preferred change for Maresca. But Andrey Santos is not a bad option at all!
59 min: Another absolute worldie save from Sánchez, who is playing like a prime Lev Yashin at the moment! Vitinha strikes from range, the ball swerving and dipping wildly, but Sanchez leaps to his left and gets a fingertip around the post!
From the resulting corner, PSG play it short and whip a cross to the back post, where two attackers are lining up. Marquinhos is close to tapping in, but João Pedro gets a crucial touch to deny his Brazilian compatriot! A great defensive intervention and Sánchez embraces João Pedro, to thank him.
58 min: PSG make their first change: Barcola for the disappointing Kvaratskhelia.
57 min: PSG are dominating possession but there are definitely gaps appearing at the back as Nuno Mendes and Hakimi fly up the pitch. Palmer releases Fernandez but the Argentinian is unable to get the ball down and feed Neto, who was completely free to his left.
54 min: Chelsea are frustrated as both Fernández and João Pedro hit the deck under a PSG challenge but on both occasions the referee plays on. João Pedro actually went down in the PSG area, claiming a penalty, and while there was a slight shirt pull, it was never a spot kick. João Pedro went down far too easily.
52 min: Huuuuuge save from Sánchez again to deny PSG! Doué crosses, the ball is deflected into the path of Dembele, just six yards out but the Frenchman scuffs a finish and Sanchez sticks out a glove and palms it wide! That was both a dreadful finish and a wonderful save! And very unlike Dembele, who is both amazingly two-footed and in the form of his life. Normally he would gobble up a chance like that. It stays 3-0 to Chelsea.
Chelsea’s goalkeeper Robert Sanchez blocks a shot on goal by Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele. Photograph: Pamela Smith/APShare
Updated at 22.35 CEST
50 min: PSG have found a rhythm, patiently probing the Chelsea defence, which has dropped very deep in the opening minutes of this half. The Blues already have 10 men behind the ball.
48 min: Kvaratskhelia comes off that left wing and curls an awkward bouncing shot towards the far post. Chelsea keeper Sánchez gets something on the ball, but rather fumbles it forwards, but Colwill is there to tidy up. Doue was lurking but unable to get to the ball first.
47 min: To put that Chelsea first half in context, PSG have scored 16 and conceded once in the entire tournament, prior to this match.
SharePeeeeeeeeeeep!
The match resumes!
PSG are back out early, looking fired up. They have almost certainly had a rollicking from Luis Enrique in the dressing room and have 45 minutes to put the first half right.
Chelsea finally emerge. I make that a 24-minute half-time break.
The Club World Cup loves a bit of novelty, so here’s a half-time interview from Chelsea left-back Marc Cucurella, who is presumably on his way to the dressing room.
We controlled the game but we have 45 minutes to go. Nothing is done yet.
Mine was an important action. I anticipated Doue’s pass. We need to continue with the same intensity.
I regret to inform you that I won’t be doing justice to the half-time show, which has been “curated by Chris Martin of Coldplay and headlined by global chart-toppers J Balvin, Doja Cat, and Tems”, according to Fifa.
Instead, why don’t you have a read of this/these:
ShareHalf-time: Chelsea 3-0 PSG
Chelsea are in dreamland. With all the urgency of someone that needs the toilet, Dembele sprints off the field towards the dressing room. Perhaps he wants to set something up on the whiteboard for his teammates. Tactically, PSG were all at sea there.
45+5 min: Dembele has had a miserable half and as if to prove the point, clumsily punts the ball out for a Chelsea throw-in in attempting to find Doué.
45+2 min: Neves makes a late surge into the Chelsea box and bravely heads towards the far post. But Sanchez reacts well, flinging himself to his left and just claws the ball away from his goalline. Chelsea’s keeper is having a fantastic half.
45 min: Six minutes added on here. Six! It’s worth revisiting that João Pedro finish. Such composure. Donnarumma is probably the best keeper in the world and the former Brighton man just sat the Italian down. A perfectly executed dink.
44 min: I’m absolutely flabbergasted at PSG’s defending. The ease at which Palmer was able to turn and play from the half-way line was staggering. Where on earth were Fabian Ruiz or Neves. Nuno Mendes was berating his teammates well before João Pedro put the ball in the net. The PSG left-back knew his team were in trouble. And he was right.
ShareGOAL! Chelsea 3-0 PSG (João Pedro 42)
Chelsea score again! What on earth is happening?! PSG are sinking without trace! Having scored twice, Palmer now turns provider, picking the ball up on the half-way line, dribbling 40 yards unchallenged and playing a deft through ball to João Pedro, who breaks the offside trap and dinks the ball over Donnarumma! The audacity! He’s only been at the club five minutes. Wow.
Joao Pedro of Chelsea scores their third goal past Gianluigi Donnarumma. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Richard Sellers/Apl/SportsphotoShare
Updated at 21.57 CEST
39 min: Pedro Neto breaks down the left and suddenly Chelsea have three on two! João Pedro and Palmer await in the middle, with just two PSG defenders for company, but Neto’s cross is a poor one and Donnarumma claims. What a waste for Chelsea!
From the resulting PSG counter-attack, Kvaratskhelia nutmegs Gusto, the latter earning a yellow card.
37 min: PSG’s lauded front three have been deathly quiet since that Doue chance. Chelsea are doing a brilliant job of squeezing the space in front of them. Hats off to Trevoh Chalobah, centre-back for Chelsea today, who only returned from a loan spell at Crystal Palace in January.
35 min: Two bookings for Chelsea in quick succession. Pedro Neto and Caicedo both are yellow carded for dissent. Not ideal, particularly for the latter, who loves to snap into challenges.
33 min: Fair play to Robert Sánchez. The Spanish goalkeeper has had his critics in the past – I have never been a huge fan – but Sánchez made a huge save to deny Doue earlier in this half and he has been excellent with his feet, releasing both Gusto and Palmer for Chelsea’s two goals. The Blues are obviously targeting the space in behind Nuno Mendes but wanting to do that and actually dropping dimes in behind probably the best left-back in world football are two very different things.