{"id":4021,"date":"2026-05-05T03:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:20:20","slug":"joao-pedro-matches-hasselbaink-and-costa-feat-for-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4021","title":{"rendered":"Joao Pedro matches Hasselbaink and Costa feat for Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Joao Pedro scored a ludicrous consolation goal during Chelsea\u2019s 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian\u2019s brilliant overhead kick was the sole highlight of another disappointing day for Chelsea, who have now lost six consecutive Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro has been one of the few success stories from Chelsea\u2019s record-breaking investment in recent transfer windows, with his outrageous overhead his 15th goal of the Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/thefootballfaithful.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr-premium-DISABLED\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a finish from Joao Pedro! \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5kQtllS7X\">pic.twitter.com\/I5kQtllS7X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/2051332643858346060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 24-year-old is the only player in the Premier League with 15+ goals and no penalties scored, while he\u2019s become only the third Chelsea player to score 15 non-penalty Premier League goals in his debut campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was first to achieve the feat in 2000\/01, as the then-club record signing scored 23 league goals on route to the Premier League\u2019s Golden Boot. 19 of the Dutchman\u2019s goals came from open-play.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Costa then matched that achievement in 2014\/15, scoring just one penalty despite a 20-goal haul, as Chelsea won the title under Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Nottingham Forest thrash Chelsea to near Premier League safety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Fabregas in no rush to make Premier League move amid Chelsea links<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Pedro scored a ludicrous consolation goal during Chelsea\u2019s 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4021","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\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}