Rashford, Rogers react to Tosin Adarabioyo’s message after new Chelsea development
Tosin Adarabioyo has sent a message on the latest developments at Chelsea, with Marcus Rashford and Morgan Rogers among those to respond.
It continues to be a busy summer for the Blues, even after a campaign in which Enzo Maresca’s side won the Conference League and qualified for the Champions League.
The Stamford Bridge outfit are of course now competing in the Club World Cup, where they have had a mixed time of things.
Chelsea beat LAFC 2-0 to make a winning start to the tournament, which is being held in America with a newly expanded format.
However, they then lost their second group stage game to Flamengo, with Nicolas Jackson being sent off for a dangerous challenge.
Tosin Adarabioyo reacts to Club World Cup progression
Those two results meant the Blues were still not certain of their place in the knockout stages going into their final group game against Esperance Tunis early on Wednesday morning (25 June).
However, a 3-0 win with new Chelsea signing Liam Delap scoring his first goal for the club has secured their place in the round of 16, where they will face Portuguese side Benfica.
Tosin also got on the scoresheet in that game while captaining the side, with his performance earning him the Player of the Match award.
Taking to Instagram to reflect on that success in making the next round, the centre-back simply wrote: “Round of 16”, alongside an arrow emoji.
Aston Villa ace Rogers has been linked with Chelsea recently, and he showed his support by liking Tosin’s post, with the pair having previously played together at youth level for Man City.
Rashford was another to do so amid the uncertainty around his own future at Man United, while members of Maresca’s side such as Reece James and Marc Cucurella did the same for their teammate.
Chelsea progress a relief for Enzo Maresca
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Making it to the next round does of course mean that the work in the challenging heat of the USA continues for the Blues, making the turnaround to next season even shorter.
That could mean Chelsea are going to be in for a challenging 2025/26 campaign given the lack of time to rest, recover and prepare once their Club World Cup run is over.
Even so, the group they were in is one everybody would have expected them to progress from, and so questions would have been asked of Maresca had he failed to do that.
Given he already came under scrutiny at Stamford Bridge at times last season, he will be pleased that he has at least avoided that next potential pitfall.