Cole Palmer (Manchester, 2002) continues without being. In the last Chelsea match in the Premier League, the midfielder had the opportunity to end his ‘bad streak’ and score a penalty goal against Leicester City. However, the goalkeeper of the opposite team, Mads Hermansen, stopped the shot of English and the ‘blues’ star maintains an alarming statistic of nine games without marking in all competitions.
Palmer failed a penalty for the first time in his entire professional career, previously maintained a 100% effectiveness in the 11 distance steps in the Premier League, ensuring a unique record of 12 penalties without err in the English competition. But his bad scroll of goals also ended up affecting his safety from the penalty spot.
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Since January 14, the Chelsea midfielder fails to score a goal or attend, a complicated situation after becoming one of the key players that always contributes assists and goals in all the games of his team. Since his arrival at the Stamford Bridge club, Palmer had not maintained a streak as negative as now, during a season at the Premier League.
Enzo Maresca, coach of Chelsea, went to the midfielder’s defense. “It’s very simple: Cole, yesterday, did not train, and during the night he did not feel good. This morning, he woke up and asked me: ‘I want to be in the field because I want to help this team, this club to play in the Champions League,” explains the Italian about Palmer’s performance, in the game against Leicester City.
Although Palmer has failed to attend or score since January, Chelsea remains in the fight for the first positions, with a total of 49 points in the Premier table. The ‘blues’ won Leicester City, with a Cucurella goal in the second half, increasing their chances of finishing the season in a Champions place.
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The next Chelsea game will be decisive. This Sunday, March 16, they face Arsenal, which occupies the second position of the general table, but that has tied its last two Premier League games, against Manchester United (1-1), and Nottingham Forest (0-0). However, in the round of 16 of the Champions League, the ‘gunners’ swept the PSV, scoring 7 goals in the first leg at the Philips Stadion.
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For both Palmer and Chelsea, the party against Arsenal is the perfect occasion to recover confidence. The British footballer will want to end his long ‘drought’ as soon as possible, while the Maresca team will look for his third consecutive victory in the League and stay above Manchester City. The last time they met, they ended with a score of 1-1 in Stamford Bridge, but now they will have to visit the house of the ‘Gunners’.