Chelsea finished the season on a high note, winning eight of our last nine games in all competitions over the course of the last month, finishing top-four in the Premier League and winning a nice shiny new trophy with the UEFA Conference League, too.
And there was a distinct turning point when that great run of results started, changing our season from bad to ... good? Or at least good enough.
The clock had ticked into the final ten minutes at Craven Cottage on April 20, and Chelsea were trailing the upstart locals, 1-0. We had offered very little in the preceding 80 minutes and there seemed little hope of that changing. We had not won an away game in the Premier League for nearly five months, since a visit to New Three Point Lane at the start of December.
Was it a miracle we needed, or was it just some unbridled (extra-)youthful optimism? Whatever it was, up popped young Tyrique George off the bench. And suddenly we were back in it, 1-1!
But we really needed three points to keep our [Champions League](https://www.sbnation.com/champions-league) hopes alive. We would need many more three points in the forthcoming weeks as well, but we really needed these three to make the subsequent ones matter.
And in the 93rd minute, Pedro Neto [delivered](https://x.com/ChelseaFC/status/1932865844851224588).
That goal has been voted Chelsea’s Goal of the Season for 2024-25, and it’s certainly deserving on both technical and emotional merit. (And the players directly involved in the build-up: Caicedo, Palmer, and Enzo, also underline the momentous nature of it.)
Congrats, Pedro!