Rosenior praises ‘unstoppable’ Palmer – and gives update on Reece James’ injury | OneFootball

Liam Rosenior says Cole Palmer is “unstoppable” when he is playing like he did against Wolves, with the forward’s first-half hat-trick helping Chelsea to a 3-1 win.

Palmer scored twice from the spot before adding another to send the Blues on their way to a comfortable win and Rosenior was delighted with the 23-year-old, who has battled injury and fitness issues this season.

“Obviously Cole gets three goals, but some of our football was everything I wanted to see and he was a part of that,” Rosenior said, reflecting on the victory.

“In terms of Cole, we know what a world class player he is. He’s played a lot of football over the past year with not much rest but when he’s at his best, he’s unstoppable.”

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Reece James missed out again in the win over Wolves, but Rosenior says he is likely to be back for Tuesday’s game against Leeds.

“Reece is so close,” he said.

“He should be fit for Tuesday. I know I said today but honestly at the moment with the games we’ve got, everything is day by day.

“He’s really, really close, there’s not a major problem at all and it will be great to have him available for Leeds on Tuesday.

“It’s just a knock, a pain management issue. He was out running yesterday but just wasn’t right and we’re still in the midst of a really, really difficult period of games, with the amount of games that we’ve got.

“Hopefully he comes back fully fit, fully rested for Tuesday.”