{"id":6326,"date":"2026-05-09T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:13:38","slug":"sam-kerrs-chelsea-days-look-numbered-but-record-breaking-striker-still-has-time-to-add-to-her-blues-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6326","title":{"rendered":"Sam Kerr’s Chelsea days look numbered – but record-breaking striker still has time to add to her Blues legend"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kerr’s slow and steady build-up to this point of being the go-to striker again is welcome, then, and especially as Chelsea look to end their season on a high. After all, this is a player who relishes the big moments, something her goal-scoring record at the club emphasises perfectly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to her injury, in 33 appearances against the rest of the WSL’s ‘Big Four’ – Arsenal, Man City and Manchester United – Kerr scored 20 times. Her record in the Champions League, the highest-level of club competition in Europe and the world, reads 20 goals in 34 games. In the seven cup finals Kerr has played for the Blues, she has scored a remarkable 10 goals, to win five of them. When the pressure is on, she steps up.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kerr’s slow and steady build-up to this point of being the go-to striker again is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","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=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}