Nkunku extra-time goal sees Chelsea through to Club Word Cup last eight after four-ho

• Chelsea overcome long weather delay to take 1-4 victory over Benfica
  
• Caicedo will miss quarter-final after receiving yellow card

The never-ending season had the never-ending game. This was Chelsea?s 61st game of a gruelling campaign and they emerged victorious only after the competing forces of the erratic American weather and the pedantic interference of VAR dragged it into extra-time at the Bank of America Stadium.
There cannot have been a weirder denouement to a football match. There was a delay lasting close to two hours because of a thunderstorm, a contentious equalising penalty from Benfica after play resumed, a red card and, perhaps least expected of all, a winning goal from Christopher Nkunku to send Chelsea through to the last eight of the Club World Cup.
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