Liam Rosenior explains how Chelsea team play made Cole Palmer’s hattrick | OneFootball

Chelsea beat Wolves 3-1 today with a really superb first half performance that saw Cole Palmer bag three goals.

The attacker is finally playing and looking more and more confident. Sky Sports asked Liam Rosenior about his star man at full time.

Rosenior gives credit to whole team after Cole Palmer triple

Cole Palmer celebrates his hat trick. (Photo by Ben Roberts Photo/Getty Images)

“He’s a fantastic player. But I think he gets the goals because it was an outstanding team performance,” the manager said, broadening the focus as ever.

“In the first half, some of our combination play, how we overloaded the middle of the pitch, it created those moments for him. And because he’s such a world class player, he takes those moments.”

That’s what we really wanted to see today – some fluid attacking play. And Rosenior is right, we saw plenty of it in the first period.

“He wasn’t bad today, so for us [he already is back to his best], people question my decision making, the minutes and the amount of games – I think it’s nine games we’ve played in less than a month. You have to manage minutes for all your players because we want to be strong between now and the end of the season. And Cole is going to be a massive part.”

You can see the manager speaking in the clip embedded here:

In other news…

Rosenior also gave an update on Reece James. The full back has missed our last two games with a “small knock,” but the manager’s latest news was very positive about a potential return next week.

Chelsea’s striker today is Joao Pedro, with Liam Delap on the bench. We’re hearing the first whispers about Delap potentially being up for sale in the summer if things don’t improve for him.