What to KnowChelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández heads into Sunday’s Membership World Cup remaining cautious of the climate, together with Paris Saint-Germain.“Honestly, the heat is incredible,” Fernandez stated Friday. “The opposite day I acquired a bit of dizzy throughout a play. I needed to lie down on the bottom as a result of I used to be actually dizzy. Taking part in on this temperature in very harmful.”Chelsea and PSG play beginning at 3 p.m. EDT in MetLife Stadium, additionally web site of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup remaining. Due to the warmth, Fernandez beneficial FIFA keep away from afternoon kickoffs on the 2026 match.
Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández heads into Sunday’s Membership World Cup remaining cautious of the climate, together with Paris Saint-Germain.
“Honestly, the heat is incredible,” Fernandez stated Friday. “The opposite day I acquired a bit of dizzy throughout a play. I needed to lie down on the bottom as a result of I used to be actually dizzy. Taking part in on this temperature in very harmful.”
FIFA slashed ticket costs once more forward of the ultimate, because it has all through the match.
Chelsea and PSG play beginning at 3 p.m. EDT in MetLife Stadium, additionally web site of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup remaining. Due to the warmth, Fernandez beneficial FIFA keep away from afternoon kickoffs on the 2026 match.
“The speed of the game is not the same,” he stated. “Everything becomes very slow. Well, let’s hope that next year they change the schedule, at least so that it remains a beautiful and attractive football spectacle.”
Temperature at kickoff is forecast to be 83 levels Fahrenheit (28 Celsius) with humidity that may make it really feel like 91 F (33 C).
“The sport will likely be more durable for the group that don’t have the ball,” Chelsea captain Reece James stated. “I think we’ve played in it a fair amount now, so I’d say we’re slowly, slowly getting used to it.”
Each groups have been allowed by FIFA to not have media availabilities on Saturday.
PSG seeks to finish a quadruple after profitable Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and its first Champions League title.
Chelsea is attempting for its second world championship after profitable in 2021. The Blues have a fourth day of relaxation after beating Fluminense 2-0 on Tuesday, a day earlier than PSG routed Actual Madrid 4-0.
Lowest ticket costs dropped from $330 earlier within the week to $199.60 on Saturday.
“I agree with the general public that they are saying that they’re the perfect group in Europe, the perfect group on this planet, and the explanation why is as a result of they’re displaying this — they present in France, they present within the Champions League, they’re displaying on this competitors,” Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca stated.
PSG clinched the French league title on April 5 with six video games to spare, received the French Cup on Could 24 and the Champions League every week later, romping over Inter Milan 5-0 within the remaining.
“We really want to go grab this title and this would make it an absolutely perfect season, which would be very hard to replicate,” PSG captain Marquinhos said. “We really want to make history.”
Chelsea had a extra modest season, ending fourth within the Premier League, shedding to Brighton within the fourth spherical of the FA Cup, to Newcastle within the fourth spherical of the League Cup and profitable the third-tier UEFA Convention League.
“Everyone is picking up our opposition,” James stated. “We are preparing right and we are going to win.”
