{"id":325119,"date":"2026-04-27T05:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=325119"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:34:36","slug":"steven-gerrard-makes-daring-claim-over-60-million-chelsea-star-after-fa-cup-win-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/steven-gerrard-makes-daring-claim-over-60-million-chelsea-star-after-fa-cup-win-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard makes daring claim over \u00a360 million Chelsea star after FA Cup win | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steven Gerrard was impressed with Joao Pedro\u2019s display against Leeds United (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Steven Gerrard singled Joao Pedro out for praise after Chelsea booked their place in next month\u2019s FA Cup final after a 1-0 win over Leeds United at Wembley. <\/p>\n

The Brazil international returned to the starting line-up after he missed the recent defeats against Manchester United and his former club Brighton. <\/p>\n

A run of 5 successive Premier League defeats without scoring, ultimately, cost Liam Rosenior his job and catapulted Calum McFarlane back into the highlight.<\/p>\n

The interim head coach, who took charge of two matches back in January following Enzo Maresca\u2019 shock exit, benefited from the return to fitness of Pedro who led the road with distinction.<\/p>\n

Skipper Enzo Fernandez proved the matchwinner with a twenty third minute header, however it was the performance of Chelsea\u2019s \u00a360million summer recruit that basically stood out for Gerrard. <\/p>\n

\u2018He was an awesome point of interest today,\u2019 the previous Liverpool skipper told TNT Sport. \u2018He\u2019s a beautiful mover with the ball. <\/p>\n

\u2018Remember within the second half when Cucurella wrapped one in and also you\u2019re pondering as a centre forward thanks for that, it\u2019s coming in neck high and his first touch was absolutely beautiful. <\/p>\n

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Joao Pedro led the road superbly for Chelsea (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I feel Chelsea look a unique team with him in and he made a giant difference today.\u2019<\/p>\n

Those sentiments were echoed by Gerrard\u2019s former England teammate, Joe Cole, who claimed Leeds didn\u2019t know easy methods to handle the Chelsea striker. <\/p>\n

He said: \u2018He plays with that flair, I loved him today he was dropping off within the pockets. He did his centre forward job, he held up the play and when he got into good positions he was picking the appropriate passes. <\/p>\n

\u2018They didn\u2019t know whether to go together with him when he got into the pockets, he ran in behind. He was such an issue for Leeds and when he\u2019s on song you’ll be able to see the influence. <\/p>\n

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Enzo Fernandez scored the one goal in Chelsea\u2019s FA Cup semi-final win over Leeds (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018He\u2019s been out the team and we\u2019ve looked a bit off it. When he\u2019s within the team it\u2019s so way more balanced.\u2019<\/p>\n

It was also a status enhancing afternoon for goalkeeper Robert Sanchez who made two match defining saves either side of Fernandez\u2019s goal. <\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s amazing,\u2019 said the Spain international. \u2018The boys reacted in the way in which they need to have. <\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve tried to maintain everyone positive in training and it\u2019s the possibility to be in one other final. It\u2019s something we\u2019ve been working for and it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m comfortable. I at all times attempt to do my job. We undergo ups and downs. I\u2019m very comfortable concerning the season I\u2019ve had however it\u2019s about ending it on a high. 4 Premier League games to go and a final.\u2019<\/p>\n

On what McFarlance has added in such a brief space of time, he added: \u2018Keep it positive and give attention to the following games. We said six games to go and it\u2019s on us to attempt to win the ultimate.\u2019<\/p>\n

Arrow<\/title>\n<\/use><\/svg>MORE: Daniel Farke singles out Chelsea star for praise after Leeds\u2019 FA Cup semi-final defeat<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrow<\/title>\n<\/use><\/svg>MORE: Who’s Calum McFarlane? Chelsea interim manager in charge for the remaining of the season<\/span><\/p>\n

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Steven Gerrard was impressed with Joao Pedro\u2019s display against Leeds United (Picture: Getty) Steven Gerrard singled Joao Pedro out for praise after Chelsea booked their place in next month\u2019s FA Cup final after a 1-0 win over Leeds United at Wembley. The Brazil international returned to the starting line-up after he missed the recent defeats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[7470,1289,6146,1060,5479,34413,692,795,10053,658],"class_list":["post-325119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bold","tag-chelsea","tag-claim","tag-cup","tag-football","tag-gerrard","tag-million","tag-star","tag-steven","tag-win"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325122,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325119\/revisions\/325122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}