Matthew Debono
Chelsea head to Las Vegas for their 2022 pre-season opener against Club America, and all the details of how to watch the friendly have been revealed.
It’s the first of Chelsea’s three games in the United States following their pre-season training camp in Los Angeles at the UCLA campus.
Thomas Tuchel’s side have been joined by new signing Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly, following his medical in London, in the United States.
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They will be hoping to get off to a winning start, however it will be about testing and raising their fitness levels, getting back into the groove in their first outing of pre-season.
Club America, Chelsea’s opponents, are already underway in their Liga MX campaign, playing three games which have seen the Mexican side win one, draw one, and lose one. A balanced start for Fernando Ortiz’s men.
Tuchel wants his side to be ready for the opening game of the season as they look to win the Premier League title, not accepting any ‘transition’ excuses to get in the way of their preparations.
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He said: "I want to win and I will demand it from myself, my team and all my players. The team will be strong.
“I am not ready to use it as an excuse even though it is maybe true that we are in transition.
"We can, I can focus, I think the team can focus on what makes us strong and we can take it step by step and work out how to win games.”
The Chelsea head coach added: "I mean it when I said we fight against the best teams and the best coaches, which does not make life easier and they set the bar so high last season, but we start again from scratch. So we will try again.
"I can promise you that everybody is ready to try again. We will not give in before we play games. That’s why the sanctions did not help. We lost important players and the other teams are recruiting, and did not have the losses that we had."
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Looking ahead to the first fixture against Club America, here are all the details on how to watch the encounter on Sunday 17th July (UK).
United Kingdom
03:00 BST
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United Arab Emirates
06:00 GST
United States of America (Saturday 16th July)
Eastern time: 22:00 EDT
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Pacific time: 19:00 PDT
The game will be available to watch live on the club’s official website, as well as Chelsea’s 5th Stand App.