Predicting FIFA Club World Cup: Key Insights & Teams

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00:00We have Chelsea, we have Esperanza de Tunis, and?

00:04Flamengo.

00:05Flamengo.

00:06Easy peasy for the black and gold.

00:08What are your predictions?

00:09Easy peasy.

00:10I don't know if it's easy peasy.

00:12All I know is that LAFC is going to have their best performance ever and advance to the second round.

00:18And then after, I don't know what's going to happen, but it's a very interesting group.

00:22I think that Flamengo, you know, the most popular team in the continent americano,

00:26coming from winning, I forgot, the Copa do Brazil this year.

00:30It's going to be very interesting, man.

00:31You know, we know Brazilians, they also want to win.

00:34They come to show the world that they're still the number one.

00:39But then on the other hand, you have teams like Chelsea,

00:41that some people here said that they could be the black horse of the tournament.

00:45You know, they're a big club, man, big club.

00:48And I think that LAFC is going to struggle the first 20 minutes of the game versus Chelsea,

00:53and then after that, you're going to be surprised.

00:55And look at how you guys got here in the first place.

00:58You got here by overcoming a very strong America.

01:01And that is going to give you guys momentum, I think.

01:03You've proved that you can contend with top teams from other leagues.

01:06Alex, what do you think is the edge that the MLS teams could have against this world-class opposition?

01:13I mean, I think they come from a league that's, you know, often told that it's not the same level as the other leagues in Europe.

01:21And they're probably here coming with that intention of showing these other teams that just because they come from a different league

01:28doesn't mean that they can't have the same force.

01:31I mean, we saw it with LAFC versus America.

01:34They dominated that game and they were able to get their playing spot.

01:37So we'll see some interesting plays from these American teams.

01:41Camila, who do you think will be the standout player for the black and gold on this tournament?

01:47I mean, I think it's fairly obvious.

01:49I think it's all about Bowanga.

01:50I think we have to see what he can do.

01:52I think he's going to be the player that we have to kind of sort of rely on more in the attacking half.

01:58And Chiba, we saw it on the last game.

02:00We saw Bowanga starting to become a more team-oriented player.

02:04I think that the goal that Giroud just pretty much set up for him really changed the mentality.

02:10So I think that this partnership is going to be very important for the black and gold.