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Cole Palmer produced a scintillating first-half masterclass arsenic Chelsea demolished Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 to triumph the Club World Cup last astatine New Jersey's MetLife Stadium connected Sunday.
The English attacking midfielder scored doubly and provided an assistance for Joao Pedro successful a devastating show successful the revamped tournament's decider that near the European and French champions, who finished with 10 men, shell-shocked earlier the break.
Chelsea struck archetypal successful the 22nd infinitesimal erstwhile PSG fullback Nuno Mendes talented possession to Malo Gusto. While his archetypal effort was blocked by Mendes, Gusto collected the rebound and recovered Palmer unmarked successful the mediate and the midfielder made nary mistake, slotting a tidy decorativeness conscionable wrong the near post.
Palmer doubled the pb aft the 30th-minute cooling interruption with a extremity of sublime quality. Latching onto a precise done shot from Levi Colwill, helium chopped wrong earlier faking a walk to dummy a defender and firing into the bottom-left corner.
Palmer past turned provider, moving up the transmission earlier uncovering Joao Pedro, who took the shot successful his stride and bushed the offside trap earlier chipping his decorativeness beautifully implicit keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
PSG's misery was completed erstwhile Joao Neves was sent disconnected for pulling Marc Cucurella's hairsbreadth successful the 83rd minute.
