{"id":23321,"date":"2025-08-09T05:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/estevao-debuts-with-a-great-goal-chelsea-defeats-leverkusen-in-preseason-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:11:41","slug":"estevao-debuts-with-a-great-goal-chelsea-defeats-leverkusen-in-preseason-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/estevao-debuts-with-a-great-goal-chelsea-defeats-leverkusen-in-preseason-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Est\u00eav\u00e3o debuts with a great goal: Chelsea defeats Leverkusen in preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"The young Brazilian talent, Est\u00eav\u00e3o, has shown his worth in his debut with Chelsea, scoring a goal in the first 18 minutes of the friendly match against Bayer Leverkusen at Stamford Bridge, with a 2-0 victory.\n\nEst\u00eav\u00e3o, with his characteristic play, took advantage of a rebound after a shot by Cole Palmer that hit the crossbar, precisely defining with his left foot. This goal marks a promising start for the 18-year-old player in his new stage with the club.\n\nThe midfielder, who signed with Chelsea in July 2024 from Palmeiras, joined the team after concluding his season in Brazil. The initial agreement was for 34 million euros, with the possibility of rising to 67 million euros depending on variables.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chelsea transfers forward Broja to Burnley.<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea negotiates for Garnacho from Man Utd.<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea&#8217;s Colwill suffers a knee injury in training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe Friday match was the first preseason game for Chelsea, less than a month after winning the final against Paris Saint-Germain at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0808%2Fr1529389_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Est\u00eav\u00e3o celebra despu\u00e9s de marcar su primer gol con la camiseta del Chelsea durante el amistoso con el Bayer Leverkusen.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Est\u00eav\u00e3o celebra despu\u00e9s de marcar su primer gol con la camiseta del Chelsea durante el amistoso con el Bayer Leverkusen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nJo\u00e3o Pedro, who debuted in the Club World Cup after his signing from Brighton, sealed the victory with Chelsea&#8217;s second goal in the 90th minute.\n\nIn addition to Est\u00eav\u00e3o and Pedro, new signings Liam Delap, Jorrel Hato and Jamie Gittens also debuted at Stamford Bridge.\n\nChelsea has one more pre-season match against AC Milan on Sunday, before starting their Premier League campaign at home against Crystal Palace a week later.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Brazilian talent, Est\u00eav\u00e3o, has shown his worth in his debut with Chelsea, scoring a goal in the first 18 minutes of the friendly match against Bayer Leverkusen at Stamford Bridge, with a 2-0 victory. Est\u00eav\u00e3o, with his characteristic play, took advantage of a rebound after a shot by Cole Palmer that hit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1380,220,4096,2020],"class_list":{"0":"post-23321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bayer-leverkusen","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-estao","11":"tag-goal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}