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Chelsea's goalscoring woes have been compounded by the fact Marc Cucurella is the club's top league goalscorer of 2025 despite being a defender.
Chelsea’s most damning statistic of the new year may not lie in their xG charts or possession metrics, but rather in the identity of their top Premier League goalscorer in 2025: Marc Cucurella.
Yes, the same roving left-back whose primary job is to defend space and deliver overlapping runs now leads the team in league goals since January.
With three strikes to his name across 12 matches, Cucurella has outscored every attacker in the squad—a reality that underscores the dysfunction festering within Enzo Maresca’s front line.
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The revelation is all the more alarming when viewed in the context of Chelsea’s most recent stalemate—a goalless draw at Brentford that left the club’s Champions League hopes hanging by a thread.
Despite generating 21 shots, their highest tally in a Premier League away game without scoring since December 2017, Chelsea could not find the breakthrough.
Instead, it was Cucurella—substituted in for Reece James in the 77th minute—who was Maresca’s final throw of the dice.
So, how did it come to this?
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Misfiring attack
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Cole Palmer, the team’s attacking linchpin for much of the season, has managed just two league goals in 2025, the last of which came nearly three months ago on January 14.
Noni Madueke has been similarly muted, his only goal this year coming in the third minute against Manchester City back in January—a brief flash before a prolonged injury absence.
Pedro Neto and Enzo Fernandez have added two goals apiece, while Nicolas Jackson’s injury layoff has prevented him from improving on a scoring drought that began well before his hamstring gave way in early February.
Meanwhile, Jadon Sancho and Christopher Nkunku continue to frustrate, offering little in the way of end product and even less in terms of urgency or aggression.
Sancho, in particular, has shown a slight uptick in willingness to shoot, but rarely threatens with conviction. His one attempt against Brentford dribbled harmlessly wide. Nkunku’s performance was arguably even more concerning, with his 45-minute outing full of misplaced touches, limp pressing, and non-existent physical presence—hallmarks of a player searching for identity and impact.
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Maresca’s tactics under fire
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The mounting inefficiency up front is casting a long shadow over Maresca’s commitment to methodical, possession-based football.
Brentford supporters weren’t the only ones growing restless. Chelsea fans inside the Gtech Stadium could be heard sarcastically celebrating Madueke’s first-half shot and urging the team forward with chants of “Attack, attack, attack.”
Maresca’s post-match defense of Chelsea’s impressive xG numbers—1.7 per game in 2025, down only slightly from the season average of 1.9 may serve as cold comfort when the goals remain so elusive.
The Italian coach maintains that better days are coming with Madueke and Jackson now returning to fitness and Palmer working closer to his preferred support role.
But with only seven Premier League games left, including a brutal stretch against Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester United, and Nottingham Forest, Chelsea's margin for error has completely vanished if they are to stand a chance of returning to the Champions League for next season.
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