Benfica v Chelsea: Club World Cup, last 16 – live

Minute-by-minute updates on the action in North Carolina

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The prize on offer tonight is a quarter-final tie with Palmeiras in Philadelphia next Friday. Palmeiras won an epic stand-off with fellow Brazilians Botafogo earlier this afternoon; Rob Smyth tells that story in the time-honoured minute-by-minute style.

Chelsea make seven changes to the team that started the easy win over Espérance Tunis. Robert Sánchez, Marc Cucurella, Levi Colwill, Pedro Neto, Cole Palmer, Moisés Caicedo and captain Reece James are back; Filip Jörgensen, Tosin Adarabioyo, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Josh Acheampong, Malo Gusto, Noni Madueke and Christopher Nkunku drop to the bench. Enzo Fernández, Roméo Lavia, Benoît Badiashile and Liam Delap are the only players to remain in the starting XI. There, that’s everyone mentioned.

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