Chelsea are gearing up for their 2025 Club World Cup opener against LAFC and Enzo Maresca's side have one thing on their mind - to win the competition.

Chelsea face LAFC in Atlanta on Monday night in both clubs’ opening match of the 2025 Club World Cup, with the Blues looking to build on a successful end to 2024/25.

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Chelsea play a Pep Guardiola-influenced style: a possession-focused, positional game. The nominal starting formation is a standard 4-3-3 but one of Maresca’s full-backs will usually ‘ invert’, often into the base of midfield and sometimes into one of the attacking half-spaces.

Chelsea heads into the FIFA Club World Cup as a top contender for the title. It's chasing just its second title after winning its first in 2021, the same year it one the Champions League.

Chelsea kick-start their Club World Cup campaign against LAFC on Monday.Enzo Maresca has already made some tough decisions for his squad ahead the tournament, leaving out all players who spent time out of loan during the season,

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