Pedro didn’t need long to announce Chelsea’s statement win that would come at Manchester United’s expense.
The 29-year-old Chelsea forward scored the fastest goal of the Premier League season Sunday, striking just 30 seconds after the highly anticipated game kicked off. Pedro ran onto Marcos Alonso’s pass and shot into the goal Manchester United’s David de Gea had vacated.
The goal was Pedro’s first of the season after he fired blanks in his first nine games in all competitions.
Pedro’s goal thwarted the best-laid plans of Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho, who was returning to Stamford Bridge for the first time since Chelsea fired him in December 2015.
Gary Cahill doubled Chelsea’s lead 20 minutes after Pedro’s strike, and Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante confirmed the rout by scoring second-half goals.
The loss was Mourinho’s worst in his storied career as a Premier League manager.
The astounding result moved Chelsea up to fourth place in the Premier League standings after nine games. Manchester United disappointingly occupies seventh place after nine games.
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