Enzo Maresca’s side may have lost to Flamengo but it is assumed that they will have more than enough quality to beat the Lisbon-based club, with football betting sites pricing Chelsea as 1/2 to qualify for the quarter-finals, versus odds of 6/4 for Benfica to go through.

Chelsea will play Benfica in the last 16 of the Club World Cup in Charlotte on Saturday after Liam Delap’s first goal for the club helped them beat Esperance in their final group D standings.

Liam Delap scored his first Chelsea goal overnight and he lifted the lid on his blossoming relationship with one "incredible" teammate.