💎🇧🇷 Estêvão reaches 11 G/A and his goal against Barcelona makes him the third teenager to score in each of his first three UCL starts…
…after Mbappé and Haaland.
One year ago, @wizkidayo’s Morayo album outshined Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, Jack Harlow’s Hello Miss Johnson, and others, earning the top spot as the week’s favorite all-genre music on Billboard…
🚨 A year ago today, @wizkidayo dropped his 6th studio album "Morayo" dedicated to his late mum 🕊️
⚪ Biggest Opening Day Streams in NG Spotify History (12.12M)
⚪ Biggest Opening Week Streams in NG Spotify History (35.8M)
⚪ Over 443M streams on Spotify
⚪ Debuted at #4 on the Billboard World Albums Chart
⚪ Debuted at #98 on the Billboard 200 Chart
WHAT A PROJECT 👏🏽
Dan Scott 🗣️“If people truly understood the damage Estevão and Cole Palmer are about to cause in the Premier League, they’d be preparing now.
Their profiles complement each other perfectly: Palmer controls rhythm, manipulates space, and freezes defenders with his pauses, while Estevão attacks gaps with power, timing, and frightening decision-making for his age.
When those two start combining consistently, it won’t just be a problem for the league it’s something the football world, and maybe the next universe, will hear about. This is a pairing built to dominate”
🇫🇷 According to @TheAthleticFC, Chelsea’s unsung hero this season is Malo Gusto.
Chelsea’s best performances this season have invariably come with Malo Gusto in their starting line-up, and the difference when he isn’t there is striking.
Chelsea have won all 6 games he’s begun in the Premier League, scoring 2.7 goals per game and conceding just 0.3. In the other 5, they have lost 3 times and drawn 2 times.
Gusto’s importance extends beyond the black-and-white of results, though. He shifts seamlessly between full-back, midfield and advanced wide roles, using his positioning to form triangles that keep the team connected across the right flank. In last month’s win against Liverpool, he stepped into midfield as a hybrid full-back, helping control possession and stretch play; against Tottenham a couple of weeks ago, he held deeper, providing balance while still progressing the ball forward.
That adaptability allows head coach Enzo Maresca to tailor the system to different opponents without losing fluency, and it reflects a player who is growing rapidly in both awareness and responsibility.
🗣 Pat Nevin: "I can't resist a line about Chelsea's winger Estevao, he really is exceptional. Only a tiny number of players can produce this particular special effect.
If you get a chance whether at Stamford Bridge, or while watching a game on TV, close your eyes and listen to the sound of the crowd when Estevao gets the ball in the final third.
It is the purified sound of expectation, excitement and support from an entire stadium. Very few can make that happen just by getting the ball."
~ @BBCSport
do you know how crazy it is that we struck gold in a championship & inexperienced manager ?
• maresca won two major trophies
• finished top 4 & got the club back in the ucl.
• got nominated for the coach of the season at the balon d’or & ranked 3rd.
• got nominated for fifpro coach of the season.
all these achievements just in his first season in top flight football.
really i don’t blame y’all who slander maresca just after one loss. i blame maresca for taking us back to where we belong & giving us bragging rights among the elites. cos if we still had pochettino & potter here fighting for pl top 10 - maybe maresca won’t get disrespected like this
I don't think people understand how impossible it is to find a player who defends in the pivot, covers ground like a box-to-box, plays in the halfspace like a 10 and creates chances whilst having the most goals and assists for the club in 2025 all in one.