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Chelsea are one of the top clubs in the world. The five-time Premier League winners won their second Champions League title last season. Currently third in the league standings, the Blues will take on defending Ligue 1 winners Lille as they look to successfully defend their European title.
The Premier League giants have enjoyed great success since their takeover by billionaire Roman Abramovich in the early 2000s. Many top players have turned up for the Blues over the years, especially in the last two decades.
Chelsea are known to have one of the stingiest defences in club football. Nevertheless, a few opposition players, especially goalscorers, have had success breaching the Londoners' rearguard.
On that note, here's a look at five players with the most goals across competitions against the Blues.
Note: All stats are as per transfermarkt unless mentioned otherwise.
#5 Ian Rush - 11 goals
Ian Rush was a prolific scorer during the 80s and 90s, especially for Liverpool. The 60-year-old netted over 350 strikes for the Reds, winning a multitude of domestic and European titles.
The Welshman scored at least ten goals against 12 different teams in English football. That includes Chelsea, against whom Rush netted 11 times in 21 games across competitions. All but one of these strikes came while he played for Liverpool.
Interestingly, he scored multiple goals in a game against the Blues only once. Rush scored a brace in Liverpool's 5-2 victory at Stamford Bridge in the league in 1989-90.
Rush also scored in Leeds United's 2-0 victory at home against the Blues in the 1996-97 Premier League.
#4 Denis Law - 11 goals
Denis Law is one of the finest goalscorers in English football, especially for Manchester United. The centre-forward scored over 200 goals in his club career, most of them for United, during the 60s and mid-70s.
The 1964 Ballon d'Or winner won two league titles and the European Club's Cup (now called the Champions League) with United. He netted 11 times against Chelsea in 15 games across two different competitions. All but two of these goals came while he played for United.
Law scored a league hat-trick against the Blues in United's 4-1 home win in the 1965-66 season
#3 Alan Shearer - 11 goals
Alan Shearer was the epitome of a quintessential goal machine during his playing days.
With 260 goals, Shearer is the all-time top scorer in Premier League history. The 50-year-old, an English champion with Blackburn Rovers in 1995, is the only player to score over 100 Premier League goals for two different clubs.
The Englishman scored over 350 goals in club football for three different clubs. That includes 11 strikes against Chelsea in 30 games - eight in the Premier League and three in the erstwhile First Division (before 1992-93).
Shearer's 11 goals against Chelsea came with three different clubs - Southampton (3), Blackburn Rovers (3) and Newcastle United (5).
#2 Ron Davies - 13 goals
Ron Davies was a prolific goalscorer during his playing days. Widely regarded as one of Southampton's greatest-ever players, the late Welshman scored over 150 goals for the Saints.
That includes 13 goals in 12 games against Chelsea - all in the erstwhile English First Division. The centre-forward scored four times in the Saints' 6-2 victory away at Chelsea in the 1967-68 season. Incredibly, Davies would also score a quadruple in the Saints' 4-1 victory at Manchester United two years later.
Following that quadruple effort, Davies was termed by United's then-manager Matt Busby as the 'finest centre-forward in Europe'. The two-time First Divison top scorer passed away in 2013 at the age of 70.
#1 Sergio Aguero - 15 goals
Sergio Aguero is one of the most prolific goalscorers of the last decade. With 260 goals, he is Manchester City's all-time top scorer.
The five-time Premier League winner, who retired this year due to heart arrhythmia, scored goals galore during his career. That includes 15 strikes against Chelsea - the joint-most he netted against a single club (also Newcastle United).
Aguero netted 15 times in 23 games against the Blues in four different competitions. All but two of these strikes came with City. He also scored two Premier League hat-tricks against the Blues. The second helped the Argentine go past Shearer (11) for most hat-tricks in the Premier League.
Unfortunately, the Argentine drew a blank in the biggest game of his club career, against Chelsea in the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League final.
In what was Aguero's last game for the Cityzens, the Blues won their second continental title, denying City their first. That marked an anticlimactic end to the Argentine's brilliant decade-long stint at the Etihad.
