Chelsea's Neto: '100%' prefer CWC over vacation

Pedro Neto has admitted Flamengo showed much "desire" than Chelsea successful Friday's Club World Cup defeat but insisted helium would inactive alternatively beryllium playing astatine the tourney than lying connected a beach.

Neto scored his 2nd extremity successful 2 matches but it was not capable to debar decision arsenic Bruno Henrique equalised earlier Danilo gave the Brazilians the pb and Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson was sent off successful six minutes of second-half madness astatine Lincoln Financial Field.

Wallace Yan added a precocious 3rd to guarantee Flamengo apical Group D and permission Chelsea needing to bushed Tunisian broadside Esperance Sportive de Tunis connected Tuesday to scope the circular of 16.

"What went incorrect was the 2nd half, to beryllium honorable successful the archetypal fractional possibly they had much power of the shot but we could make the chances much than them," Neto said.

"And erstwhile we went to the 2nd fractional we tried to property a small spot higher. We started good successful the 2nd fractional but what made the quality was a small spot the tendency and they had much tendency than america to triumph the game. And aft the reddish paper arsenic good the crippled was I deliberation finished."

Asked if helium would similar to beryllium astatine the Club World Cup alternatively than prevarication connected the beach, Neto replied: "100 percent sure. "We person to beryllium thankful. We are present playing this tournament. There would beryllium a batch of players that would emotion to beryllium successful my spot and successful the different place. We person to bask it."

Defender Marc Cucurella said the South American teams person a antithetic "momentum" astatine the tourney with Boca Juniors' 2-1 decision to Bayern Munich the archetypal clip a Brazilian oregon Argentine broadside has mislaid successful 10 games since the contention began.

"I deliberation the Premier League is the champion league successful the satellite but it's existent that it tin beryllium precise antithetic from 1 squad to different and it's not lone this game, you tin spot the different results and the momentum they person is antithetic to European teams," Cucurella said.

"The conditions are not the aforesaid arsenic good for European teams and it's not an excuse, it's a world and it's 1 of the reasons.

"They person a batch of endowment but if we play successful different infinitesimal past we tin possibly bushed them. Maybe present is the infinitesimal to suffer and if you are going to suffer past it's present and if we spell done that is the infinitesimal to amusement our qualities."