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.

Maresca has generally been reluctant to lean on the new faces in his squad for this CWC campaign, but Delap has been the exception.

Liam Delap scored his first Chelsea goal overnight and he lifted the lid on his blossoming relationship with one “incredible” teammate. The England U21 international was one of Chelsea‘s first summer signings,