{"id":4294,"date":"2026-09-12T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:35:20","slug":"chelsea-player-ratings-vs-benfica-pedro-neto-proves-jose-mourinho-right-as-special-ones-stamford-bridge-return-ends-with-blues-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea player ratings vs Benfica: Pedro Neto proves Jose Mourinho right as Special One&#8217;s Stamford Bridge return ends with Blues victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Estevao Wilian (6\/10):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Came off the bench early in the second half and his first few touches got the crowd going. Had a chance with a header after a cross from Enzo Fernandez but couldn&#8217;t beat the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joao Pedro (3\/10):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fairly disastrous showing. Brought on to add more firepower but had no sights of goal and was then sent off in stoppage time for a high boot which brought a second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie Gittens (5\/10):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Made zero impact after coming on for the last half hour. Had one late run at goal that simply fizzled out when he reached the danger zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reece James (7\/10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sent on the last 10 minutes to help Chelsea see it out and made an important late block.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Acheampong (6\/10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another late reinforcement to help Chelsea see it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enzo Maresca (6\/10):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Made plenty of changes to his team and was rewarded with a much-needed win, although he won&#8217;t be pleased to see his team finish with 10 men yet again. Chelsea weren&#8217;t at their best against Benfica, and looked toothless at times in attack, but the result means their Champions League campaign is up and running.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/chelsea-player-ratings-benfica-pedro-neto-jose-mourinho\/blt078f099262f7f278\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estevao Wilian (6\/10): Came off the bench early in the second half and his first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}