{"id":68389,"date":"2025-08-08T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68389\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:18:12","slug":"estevao-makes-scoring-start-as-chelsea-beat-bayer-leverkusen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68389\/","title":{"rendered":"Est\u00eav\u00e3o makes scoring start as Chelsea beat Bayer Leverkusen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazilian teen Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/a> gave his new club an early glimpse of his talent, with a goal just 18 minutes into his first appearance in a Chelsea<\/a> jersey in Friday’s 2-0 preseason win over Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old was in the right place to calmly slot the ball into the net with his left foot after a shot from Cole Palmer<\/a> had come back off the crossbar to make a dream start to his Chelsea career a year after first signing for the Premier League<\/a> club.<\/p>\n

Chelsea signed the highly rated midfielder from Palmeiras in July 2024 in a deal that ESPN reported<\/a> was worth an initial \u20ac34 million ($40m) with performance-related add-ons potentially taking the total to a figure in the region of \u20ac67m ($78m). He remained at Palmeiras last season before arriving in west London to begin training with his new team this week.<\/p>\n

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Est\u00eav\u00e3o’s previous game had come against Chelsea in the Club World Cup quarterfinals, with Enzo Maresca’s side coming out on top en route to lifting the trophy.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game was Chelsea’s first of preseason, less than four weeks after beating Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> in the final at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n

Est\u00eav\u00e3o celebrates after scoring his first goal in a Chelsea jersey during the friendly with Bayer Leverkusen.\u00a0Bryn Lennon\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Another recent arrival, Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/a> — who made his debut at the Club World Cup after signing from Brighton — scored Chelsea’s second goal to seal the win in the 90th minute with a low shot into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n

As well as Est\u00eav\u00e3o and Pedro, there were first outings at Stamford Bridge for fellow summer signings Liam Delap<\/a>, Jorrel Hato<\/a> and Jamie Gittens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latter, on as a substitute in the second half, almost set up Est\u00eav\u00e3o for his second goal but the Brazil<\/a> international put his shot wide of the goal.<\/p>\n

Chelsea have just one more game in their abbreviated preseason, against AC Milan on Sunday, before beginning their Premier League campaign at home to Crystal Palace a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilian teen Est\u00eav\u00e3o gave his new club an early glimpse of his talent, with a goal just 18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-68389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}