Pedro Neto believes the expectations that include representing Chelsea, mixed with our successes final season, present the final word motivation for the Blues as we enter the ultimate months of the season.
The winger is halfway by way of his second season at Stamford Bridge – he arrived from Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2024 – and has established himself as a dependable presence throughout the Blues’ assault.
No participant has made greater than his 27 Premier League appearances for Chelsea this season, and solely Enzo Fernandez and Joao Pedro can higher his tally of 10 objectives in all competitions this time period.
Reaching double figures, aided by his maiden senior hat-trick scored towards Hull City within the FA Cup, makes this probably the most prolific marketing campaign of Neto’s profession. Yet the Portugal worldwide is targeted on pushing himself over the rest of the season.
‘It’s been actually good,’ stated Neto forward of our Premier League journey to Arsenal. ‘I’ve been studying quite a bit, enhancing I believe as effectively. This is perhaps the primary time I’ve had a season taking part in lots of minutes, so I’m actually having fun with the season and I need to do extra.
‘I will keep working hard to get better and to make changes as well in terms of improving my game and learning. This is the way I work day-by-day.
‘I had the first hat-trick in my career, so I’m actually delighted. I simply need extra. I need to preserve these emotions once you win. You at all times need to preserve successful and I need to preserve having objectives and assists, however a very powerful factor is I get pleasure from it after I play.’
It will not be all enjoyable and video games, although. Neto is effectively conscious of the expectations that include representing a membership that has the ambitions of Chelsea.
Neto views the strain that comes with that drive to succeed as a constructive, believing it pushes the Blues on as we glance to recreate the successful feeling of final season’s triumphs within the UEFA Conference League and FIFA Club World Cup.
The 24-year-old stated: ‘When you play here, you have a lot of expectations, like if you can be champion or not, if you can make the Champions League or not, and if you don’t do it, the strain is quite a bit. It’s good strain and you solely get affected by that should you let it, but it surely’s the requirements of this membership.
‘I came to this club to win trophies as we did in my first season. It was an unbelievable first season for me. The second one, we have a long way to go, we have a lot to fight for. So the expectations are really big. Of course, we have the expectation to do better every year. To be at a top club, the responsibility is bigger as well.
‘There is more motivation as well, of course. When you learn what it is to win trophies, you just want to win more and more, because the sensation that you have is unbelievable.
‘That is why you play the game. The feeling that I had when I won for this club was unbelievable. I want to feel it again.’
As we put together to take on Arsenal in our first fixture of March, Neto’s sights are firmly set on constructing on the achievements from his first season with Chelsea. That is obvious when he’s requested what his and the team-mates’ ambitions for the rest of 2025/26 are.
‘Do better than I did before and achieve what I can with this football club and the national team. Those are my goals,’ he concluded.
‘The goal of the club is to win the most trophies we can. We are in the FA Cup, we are in the Champions League. We are a little bit far away from the title, but we have to make sure we are in the Champions League.
‘The goals are there and we know which ones they are. Of course, as a club we want to win trophies and those trophies would be a beautiful way to finish the season.’
