{"id":240531,"date":"2020-07-27T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=240531"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:48:43","slug":"epl-pedro-leaves-chelsea-daily-post-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=240531","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Pedro leaves Chelsea &#8211; Daily Post Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea attacker, Pedro Rodriguez has confirmed he is leaving Stamford Bridge after helping the club qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro arrived at Chelsea on June 20, 2015 on a \u20ac27m deal from Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>While in London, the Spaniard has won one Premier League title, an FA Cup and a Europa League with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018\/19 season ended with Pedro scoring 13 goals, eight of which came in the Premier League and the other five in the Europa League, and was key under Maurizio Sarri.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro shares the record of being among a few players to have scored in both the Europa and Champions League finals alongside Steven Gerrard, Allan Simonsen, Hernan Crespo and Dmitri Alenichev.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming his exit, the 32-year-old tweeted, \u201cLast game at Stamford Bridge. Thanks to every fan for your support through these years, to the club for giving me the chance of being a Blue and to my teammates. You\u2019ll be in my heart forever. Now let\u2019s fight for the FA Cup trophy!!! BIG BLUE FAMILY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his five seasons at Chelsea, Pedro scored a total of 44 goals in 232 matches, including 3 scored in the just concluded season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea attacker, Pedro Rodriguez has confirmed he is leaving Stamford Bridge after helping the club qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League. Pedro arrived at Chelsea on June 20, 2015 on a \u20ac27m deal from Barcelona. While in London, the Spaniard has won one Premier League title, an FA Cup and a Europa League with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,1397,12101,11251],"class_list":["post-240531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard","tag-pedro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}