How Joao Pedro became the Premier League's best striker as Chelsea curse lifted

We have almost reached the one-year anniversary of an Enzo Maresca quote that is increasingly likely to age like fresh cream - and it has nothing to do with recent developments at the club who now employ him. Joao Pedro ’s numbers last season and his superb start to the new campaign present a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence that, at the very least, it was unwise of Maresca to so confidently insist the striker is “not a No9 that is going to score 20 goals each year” .