{"id":390297,"date":"2025-06-17T10:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=390297"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:55:06","slug":"flamengo-defeats-esperance-at-fifa-club-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/flamengo-defeats-esperance-at-fifa-club-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamengo defeats Esp\u00e9rance at FIFA Club World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil&#8217;s Flamengo defeated Tunisia&#8217;s Esp\u00e9rance 2\u20130 on Monday night (16) in both teams\u2019 debut at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA<\/a> Club World Cup, in a match held in Philadelphia, United States. With the result, the Rio de Janeiro team leads Group D with three points, ahead of Chelsea (also with three), Los Angeles FC, and Esp\u00e9rance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brazilian team opened the scoring in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the first half with Arrascaeta and extended their lead in the 24<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the second half with Luiz Ara\u00fajo\u2014in the only moment of the match when Esp\u00e9rance posed a threat to Flamengo\u2019s goal. After widening the lead, coach Filipe Lu\u00eds\u2019s team simply maintained the result. Flamengo will return to the field on Friday (20) at 3 p.m. to face Chelsea, while Esp\u00e9rance will take on Los Angeles FC at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, on Thursday (19), another clash between Arab and Brazilian teams will take place. Egypt\u2019s Al Ahly will face Brazil&#8217;s Palmeiras in a match scheduled for 1 p.m. Both teams drew in their opening game of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/fifa-club-world-cup-features-arab-brazilian-teams\/\">FIFA Club World Cup features Arab, Brazilian teams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-390290\">\u00a9Franck Fife\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brazilian and Tunisian teams&#8217; debut, the Rio de Janeiro side won 2\u20130. Palmeiras will face Egypt\u2019s Al Ahly on Thursday (19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":390290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[38660,53541,53542,53511,6476,38663,53543],"class_list":{"0":"post-390297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-al-ahly-en-2","9":"tag-arrascaeta-2","10":"tag-chelsea-2","11":"tag-esperance-3","12":"tag-fifa-club-world-cup","13":"tag-flamengo-en-2","14":"tag-luiz-araujo-2"},"wps_subtitle":"In Brazilian and Tunisian teams' debut, the Rio de Janeiro side won 2\u20130. Palmeiras will face Egypt\u2019s Al Ahly on Thursday (19).","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}