Evening Standard
·28 de septiembre de 2024
In partnership with
Yahoo sportsEvening Standard
·28 de septiembre de 2024
Blues talisman’s feet kept on the ground by cheeky jibe from Stamford Bridge team-mate written on his match ball
After scoring all four of Chelsea’s goals in their chaotic 4-2 victory over Brighton at Stamford Bridge, Cole Palmer claimed: “I should have had five or six”.
The 22-year-old became the first player in Premier League history to score four times in the first half of a match on Saturday, but might have had even more, hitting the post before his first strike and then firing wide in the second half.
Speaking after the game, Palmer said: “When I missed the first chance I was upset, but with the way they played and their high line, I felt we would get more chances”.
Palmer’s slight self-criticism, if not incredibly high standards, was jokingly echoed by Chelsea team-mate Romeo Lavia, who declared the England star was “a mid player regardless” of anything he did today in a teasing message written on his match ball revealed on social media.
Palmer’s four-goal haul makes it six goals and four assists for the season already for the England forward, and means he has now scored three Premier League hat-tricks for the Blues - tying him with Chelsea legends Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.