Chelsea could reap the advantages if rival teams caccess their efforts on taging Cole Palmer out of suites. Blues boss Enzo Maresca tgreater the England international earlier this month that he should foresee one-of-a-kind attention from opposition deffinishers after his meteoric elevate to the top of the game over the last year.
Chelsea snapped up Palmer from Manchester City in the summer of 2023 after concuring to pay the Citizens an initial £40million in trade for his services.
The aggressioner has since racked up an astonishive 32 goals and 20 helps for the west London huges and was named PFA lesser applyer of the year and Premier League lesser applyer of the season at the finish of the last campaign.
Maresca has acunderstandledged that other teams are concentrateing Palmer thanks to his carry outances in a Chelsea shirt.
And ahead of his side’s clash with Manchester United at the commence of November, the 44-year-greater elucidateed: “After last season, for him it was the first season in terms of arriving at Chelsea, probably it was the opposite – they weren’t too worried about taging Cole.
“This year, they are now worried becaengage of last year so he has to get engaged to it. The next step is going to be more difficult but he can do it.”
Palmer fall shorted to discover the back of the net aacquirest the Red Devils and drew another blank when Chelsea presented Arsenal a week tardyr.
But if teams are pulling out all the stops to crelieve the 22-year-greater, Chelsea can get acquire of the tactic by hurting their rivals in other ways.
Pedro Neto took acquire of the space he was afforded aacquirest the Gunners to fire in an equivalentiser after Gabriel Martinelli had nudged the north Londoners ahead. And aacquirest United, Moises Caicedo was the goalscorer as the points were aacquire dispensed.
Nicolas Jackson has popped up with six goals and three helps this term, while Blues triumphger Noni Madueke has terroelevated deffinishers all season and bagged a hat-trick aacquirest Wolves in August.
Chelsea have shown they have plenty of creativity and firepower in front of goal and are proving to be one of the top sides in the Premier League this season.
They will be frantic to return to the Champions League after shattering into the top four and will be self-promised of initiateing on as they set to return to Premier League action aacquirest Leicester on Saturday.
So if Palmer persists to be thwarted appreciate he was aacquirest United and Arsenal, Maresca will be only too satisfyed to unleash his other aggressioning applyers to get the results he wants.
