ES Tunis vs Chelsea Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup | Group Stage
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Esperance de Tunis have proven themselves to be surprisingly competitive in the FIFA Club World Cup as they face a Chelsea side that are now under pressure ahead of this.
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ES Tunis team news: Belaili suspended
Key man and their match winner from the game against LAFC, Youcef Belaili, is now missing through suspension for ES Tunis as he received a second tournament yellow card for a dive against the Americans.
Predicted XI (4-4-1-1): Ben Said; Ben Ali, Meriah, Tougai, Ben Hamida; Mokwana, Ogbelu, Guenichi, Konate; Yan; Rodrigo Rodrigues
Unavailable: Belaili (Suspended)
Questionable:
Chelsea team news: Jackson suspended
As was the case against Newcastle United in the Premier League last month, Nicolas Jackson received a straight red card against Flamengo the other day so he is now missing through suspension for the Blues in their final game.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Sanchez; James, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella; Moises Caicedo, Fernandez; Madueke, Palmer, Neto; Delap
Unavailable: Jackson (Suspended)
Questionable:
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ES Tunis vs Chelsea prediction
Esperance de Tunis came into the tournament being widely tipped as one of the weakest sides. However, the Tunisians have shown themselves to be competitive with a hard-fought 2-0 loss to Flamengo in their opener being followed up by a surprise 1-0 defeat of LAFC a few days’ later.
Chelsea comfortably defeated Los Angeles by two goals to nil in their opening game, but the Blues have since stuttered and find themselves now in a must-win final game. They took the lead against Flamengo via Pedro Neto before capitulating in the second-half to a 3-1 loss to the impressive Brazilians.
ES Tunis will seek to make things difficult for Chelsea but they have now lost their key creative spark in Belaili so a fairly unconvincing Chelsea victory would seem likely.
ES Tunis vs Chelsea tip: Chelsea to win & under 3.5 goals
