{"id":4145,"date":"2026-05-05T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:49:31","slug":"who-is-jesse-derry-chelsea-hand-rising-star-premier-league-debut-in-clash-with-nottingham-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4145","title":{"rendered":"Who is Jesse Derry? Chelsea hand rising star Premier League debut in clash with Nottingham Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Chelsea have named Jesse Derry in their team to face Nottingham Forest in the Premier League this afternoon.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">It&#8217;s a Premier League debut for the 18-year-old winger, following a string of impressive performances for the club at u-21 level.<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"heading-content\">Who is Jesse Derry? Chelsea name teenager in Premier League team to face Nottingham Forest<\/h3>\n<p>Derry signed for Chelsea on a four-year contract from Crystal Palace in 2025. The 18-year-old has impressed in the Eagles&#8217; academy, making his debut for the u-18 side while still a schoolboy. He was named Crystal Palace&#8217;s u-18 Player of the Season in 2023\/24, having scored 16 goals in 22 appearances for the South Londoners.<\/p>\n<p>After featuring for England at the u-19 European Championship in 2025, Derry crossed the capital to sign for Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>He has formed part of the Chelsea team that were confirmed as league phase winners of the Premier League 2 earlier this month, after topping the 29-team table.<\/p>\n<p>Derry scored six goals and created three more, while he also netted five times in eight appearances for Chelsea during the UEFA Youth League.<\/p>\n<p>His goalscoring form has also attracted interest at international level. Derry has scored eight goals in 15 caps for England at u-19 level, including a hat-trick in a 7-0 victory over Latvia in a Euro 2026 qualifier in November. He also scored twice in March&#8217;s 6-0 win over Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager&#8217;s performances at youth level earned him a senior debut for Chelsea, as a second-half substitute during the club&#8217;s 4-0 win over Hull City in the FA Cup fourth round in February.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">He is the son of former Premier League midfielder Shaun Derry. Derry senior represented Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers in the top-flight, alongside Football League spells with clubs including Notts County, Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Leeds United, and Millwall.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have named Jesse Derry in their team to face Nottingham Forest in the Premier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","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\/4145","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=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}