Chelsea’s Pedro Neto explains pointed message behind goal celebration against West Ham

Pedro Neto sent a connection to some Chelsea’s lovers and haters with his extremity solemnisation successful the triumph implicit West Ham connected Monday night.

The Blues came from down astatine Stamford Bridge, with it looking similar a sticky evening for them erstwhile Jarrod Bowen had fixed the Hammers a half-time lead.

However, Neto equalised arsenic helium fired location a bobbling shot successful the box, earlier a Cole Palmer transverse was deflected into his ain extremity by Aaron Wan-Bissaka to springiness Chelsea a somewhat fortunate victory.

After scoring successful the 64th infinitesimal Neto made a talking motion with his hand, unclear who helium was sending that connection to.

Asked by Sky Sports aft the crippled what constituent helium was making, helium said that the squad are conscionable focussing connected themselves, unfazed by affirmative oregon antagonistic talk.

‘We are a large club,’ said the erstwhile Wolves man. ‘When you triumph you are the champion and erstwhile you suffer you are the worst truthful it is astir moving and being accordant and showing what we tin do.

‘To triumph trophies, you person to cognize however to suffer. We are present to endure and bash our champion and to decorativeness successful the apical places.’

While it mightiness not person been a vintage show from Chelsea successful the London derby, Marc Cucurella felt the Blues showed their togetherness arsenic the battled to the victory.

‘This triumph was precise important successful beforehand of our fans. Today the squad showed character, I deliberation we were assured and we deserved the 3 points,’ said the Spaniard.

‘We play successful this large club, we request to triumph trophies, we request to judge successful ourselves. We request to suffer, we came backmost from the mistake successful the archetypal fractional and we showed what the players had to travel backmost successful this game.”

‘We played contiguous similar a team, similar a household and I deliberation it is precise important for us.’

Blues brag Maresca felt his squad afloat deserved the 3 points they picked up, telling Sky Sports: ‘Today was a pugnacious crippled particularly mentally. When West Ham travel present and beryllium backmost with 10 players down the ball, it’s not easy, truthful you person to beryllium mentally beardown and you request to beryllium patient.

‘We had much than 10 shots successful the archetypal half. We had wide chances successful the archetypal fractional but unfortunately, we missed the target. With immoderate changes the crippled wholly changed. Overall we wholly deserved to triumph the game.’

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