The Blue Lions Chelsea will go to Lincoln Financial Field to challenge Flamengo from Brazil in the second round of the Group D of the 2025 Club World Cup. Palmer said that he is very happy that Liam Delap, whom he has known for many years, has joined the team, and hopes to create more brilliant results with his teammates who have worked together for many years.

With goals from Pedro Neto and Enzo, Chelsea defeated Los Angeles FC 2-0 in the first round of the Club World Cup group stage. Liam Delap, who joined Chelsea earlier, also assisted Enzo to score in the first round, and his performance was eye-catching.

It is worth mentioning that Palmer and Liam Delap played together in Manchester City's youth training, including Lavia.

Chelsea midfielder Palmer said, "Being together and living together every day, I think it will make the relationship between each other closer. I have worked with Liam Delap for many years, starting with Manchester City. I roughly know where he will appear on the court. I like to pass the ball to him and hope to assist him many times this season."

"Lavia and Liam Delap are about the same age as me and we have been playing together for a while. Adarabioyo is also from Manchester and we have a good relationship. Madueke, Liam Delap and I have played together many times in the England national team at different levels, so I think the atmosphere in the team is very good and we get along well."

In addition, the 23-year-old Palmer changed his jersey number from 20 to 10 earlier.

Palmer said, "I have liked wearing the No. 10 jersey since I was a child, and Messi is of course the most representative No. 10, and there are players like Rooney, and this is a very symbolic number."

On the other hand, Chelsea coach Maresca talked about the lineup status against Flamengo in an interview.

Maresca said, "There are no injuries at the moment, but because of the nature of the game, we have to play a game every three days, so rotation is necessary. I'm not saying that I will replace 10 or 11 players in every game, but I will definitely rotate about 3 to 5 players in each game, because we can't play with the same lineup every three days."

"We made some rotations in the first game, including Lavia and Reece James, who have been the players we have focused on managing their playing time since the first day. At the same time, we replaced Esugo to give Caicedo, who played a lot of games, a rest."