Chelsea kicked off their 2025 Club World Cup campaign with victory over LAFC at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday.

Former Tottenham goalkeeper and France’s World Cup-winning captain Hugo Lloris and ex-Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud are standout names, while Odin Holm, on loan from Celtic, will also be familiar. Coach Steve Cherundolo played more than 300 Bundesliga matches for Hannover.

Chelsea showed their Premier League quality as they dispatched Los Angeles FC 2-0 in Atlanta.In a game that started slowly, the Blues took the lead with just over half an hour to go when Nicolas

Chelsea cruised, LAFC somewhat competed, but the empty seats that greeted the Club World Cup's Atlanta debut couldn't be overlooked.

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Chelsea kicked off their Fifa Club World Cup campaign against Los Angeles FC to tens of thousands of empty seats in Atlanta.The game started at 3pm local time on a working Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Chelsea's win over LAFC took place in a 70,000-capacity NFL stadium that attracted an attendance of just 22,197.

The Club World Cup is very real now.It’s not just a distant oddity which we can worry about when we get to it – it’s here. The players have touched down in the USA, and our first game is just a