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Kai Havertz repeats Champions League trick as Chelsea make history to win FIFA Club World Cup

Chelsea's £70million signing Kai Havertz has repeated his Champions League Manchester City heroics with what he did in the Club World Cup final against Palmeiras.

The Blues completed the full sweep of trophies under the Roman Abramovich era as Thomas Tuchel won the club's first Club World Cup title.

Romelu Lukaku had put the Blues 1-0 up in the 55th minute with his powerful header from a Callum Hudson-Odoi cross but they were pegged back minutes later through a controversial penalty conceded by Thiago Silva.

Into extra time and after huffing and puffing from the European Champions, they finally blew the Palmeiras house done and one man in particular repeated a trick that was seen in Porto at the end of the last term.

Havertz, 22, hasn't been a serial goal scorer since his much-anticipated move from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2020 but one thing that is ever-present in his game is his ability to step up in the big moments.

Just like he did against Man City when he rounded Ederson to slot in the winning goal in the Champions League final, he was called upon yet again to slot home a penalty late into extra time against the resilient Brazilians.

After Cesar Azpilicueta won a penalty for his side with his snapshot inside the area, with no Jorginho on the pitch, it initially looked like the Spaniard was set to take the responsibility.

However, the Germany international took the ball and sent the goalkeeper the wrong way to send the Chelsea fans into raptures.

His trick in scoring in finals again has resulted in delirium amongst the Blues fanbase who can now see why Abramovich splashed £70m on Chelsea's number 29.

Some Chelsea fans also took to social media to praise Havertz.

@murphyly said: 'The king final.'

@JassonsCards tweeted: 'King Kai.'

@aneesha14_ tweeted: 'KAI HAVERTZ IS THE BEST ON EARTH!!!!!!.'

You can recap all the events from the Club World Cup Final here.

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