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Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah secured World Cup bronze with England after a remarkable 6-4 victory over Malo Gusto\u2019s France in Miami.<\/strong><\/p>\n Gusto started at right-back for France, while James and Chalobah were named among Thomas Tuchel\u2019s substitutes.<\/p>\n England produced an extraordinary opening half. Declan Rice scored inside three minutes before Ezri Konsa and two Bukayo Saka goals established a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n France responded after the interval as Kylian Mbappe scored twice and created Bradley Barcola\u2019s goal. The comeback reduced England\u2019s advantage to 4-3 and transformed the third-place play-off into one of the tournament\u2019s most dramatic matches.<\/p>\n James replaced Jarell Quansah in the 83rd minute and entered at right-back with England attempting to regain control.<\/p>\n The Chelsea captain was soon involved in a frantic finish. Gusto was penalised for bringing down Djed Spence before Saka converted the resulting spot-kick to complete his hat-trick.<\/p>\n Ousmane Dembele made it 5-4 during added time, but Jude Bellingham finally secured victory with England\u2019s sixth goal.<\/p>\n Chalobah replaced Marc Guehi during the closing moments, meaning all three current Chelsea players featured together before the final whistle.<\/p>\n The\u00a0official Chelsea report\u00a0confirmed England recorded their best men\u2019s World Cup finish since winning the tournament in 1966.<\/p>\n James and Chalobah will now return to Chelsea with bronze medals, while Gusto\u2019s impressive France campaign ended in fourth place.<\/p>\n Their extended international involvement means Xabi Alonso will need to manage their recovery carefully. As\u00a0Read Chelsea previously reported, the trio have missed the opening stages of the club\u2019s pre-season preparations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah secured World Cup bronze with England after a remarkable 6-4…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}James and Chalobah help England survive France comeback<\/h2>\n