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Funny! Players warm up on exercise bikes for 2 hours, fans are angry: Will this be the same next World Cup?

8:31pm, 1 July 2025【Football】

At 4 a.m. on June 29, the second game of the Club World Cup 1/8 final began, with Chelsea against Benfica. When the 88th minute of the game, the referee blew a whistle and interrupted the game because bad weather was about to come. There was no way, so the players had to go back to the locker room and wait for news of the resumption of the game.

In the Club World Cup group stage, Benfica beat Bayern Munich to qualify for the top spot in Group C, while Chelsea ranked behind the Brazilian team Flamengo and ranked second in the group.

Neither side made any achievements in the first half of this game. After entering the second half, Chelsea strengthened its offense. In the 64th minute, the first goal of this game was late. Reese James took the penalty and went straight to the dead end. Chelsea took the lead 1-0.

Just as the game was about to end 1-0, a funny scene appeared again. Due to the dark clouds in the sky, the referee blew a whistle to stop the game, entered the locker room to shelter from the rain, and then played after a while. Unfortunately, this wait took more than two hours, which made the players and fans extremely depressed.

After returning to the locker room, the players cannot sit down and rest. They also need to maintain their heat, otherwise they will easily get injured after the game starts later. There was no way, so the players had to ride a bike in the locker room to warm up. This scene is the most comical scene in football history.

On social media, fans also expressed their anger and asked, would this be the case if they waited for tomorrow's World Cup? The kicking game is interrupted, the timeout is suspended, and the locker room is back to rest for a while before kicking?

The Chelsea team originally led 1-0 in this game and had the advantage on the field. It is likely that this is the final score, but after a 2-hour rest, the remaining ten minutes will be full of uncertainty again. After all, compared with Chelsea, Benfica's team is mainly veterans represented by Di Maria, and in the second half of the second half, its physical strength has dropped significantly. But after 2 hours of rest, you can recover your physical strength, so the game will lose the fairness it should have.