Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo and Joao Pedro have a good time after a objective in the course of the Premier League match between Chelsea and West Ham in London, on August 22, 2025.
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Chelsea piled on the early season distress for West Ham and its under-fire supervisor Graham Potter by handing out a 5-1 thrashing within the Premier League, all without injured star Cole Palmer.
Palmer pulled out of the crew on the final minute on Friday after getting damage within the warmup, earlier than Chelsea went a objective down within the sixth minute on the Olympic Stadium after a long-range piledriver from Lucas Paqueta.
It went shortly downhill from there for West Ham, which misplaced at promoted Sunderland 3-0 final weekend within the opening spherical and was crushed much more handsomely every week later.
Chelsea had 5 totally different scorers — in Joao Pedro, Pedro Neto, Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah. Three of the objectives got here at corners, the place West Ham’s marking was non-existent.
After Caicedo poked within the fourth objective within the 54th minute after West Ham goalkeeper Mads Hermansen flapped at an in-swinging nook, some house followers left the stadium.
A trickle of departing supporters changed into a flood from the 58th when Chalaboh hooked house a shot from shut vary for an additional objective from a nook.
Potter seemed dejected on the sideline, together with his place trying growing unsure after a poor finish to final season by West Ham when the crew completed 14th within the 20-team league.
There have been boos at halftime and fulltime for West Ham and Potter, who coached Chelsea for seven months in the course of the 2022-23 season earlier than getting fired.
Estevao shines
Replacing Palmer within the Chelsea crew was Estevao, a extremely rated 18-year-old Brazilian winger who was making his full debut after approaching in its place within the 0-0 draw in opposition to Crystal Palace final weekend.
West Ham United’s Maximilian Kilman tries to deal with Chelsea’s Estevao
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The teenager was wonderful, consistently getting in behind West Ham’s protection and getting an help when he crossed for Enzo to faucet in from two meters out within the thirty fourth minute.
By that point, Pedro nodded within the equalizer from shut vary within the fifteenth after Marc Cucurella glanced on a nook to the close to publish. Pedro then crossed for Neto to fit house within the twenty third.
Estevao, who performed for Palmeiras on the Club World Cup over the summer time, came visiting from Brazil with a robust popularity and he backed it up in opposition to West Ham.
Paqueta bounces again
Paqueta is getting his profession again heading in the right direction after being cleared of spot-fixing fees final month.
He has scored West Ham’s first of the season for 2 campaigns working now and this one was a magnificence, the Brazil midfielder amassing the ball simply inside Chelsea’s half, advancing ahead to about 25 meters out and smashing a shot that swerved previous goalkeeper Robert Sanchez.
Published – August 23, 2025 10:15 am IST
