There were huge swathes of empty red seats in the 71,000 capacity Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta as ticket sales appeared to have flopped for Chelsea's opener against LAFC

The Club World Cup is upon us, a tournament rife with such contention and rancor in its build up that it is almost hard to remember that the action itself has not begun. The competition, revamped at the behest of FIFA president Gianni Infantino into a quadrennial carnival with the scale of the World Cup,

Atletico Madrid star Marcos Llorente was suffering in the extreme heat during the FIFA Club World Cup clash against Paris Saint Germain. On Sunday, Atletico and PSG faced off at the Rose Bowl in California as they kicked off their Club World Cup campaign.