England midfielder is ‘totally different’ to Chelsea team-mates – Maresca

December 13, 2024Trending News

Cole Palmer’s Panenka penalty in Chelsea’s thrilling win at Tottenham confirmed the “freedom” the England midfielder shares with “many prime gamers”, Blues supervisor Enzo Maresca has stated as his prime scorer goals so as to add to his 11 top-flight objectives this season.

Prolific Palmer’s impudent strike was his second penalty after the break in his aspect’s 4-3 win on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, recovering from 2-0 behind after 11 minutes to go second earlier than this weekend’s fixtures.

“Cole is a special one to the remainder however we’ve got many good gamers the place the top coach – on this case, me – would really feel blissful and proud to work with them,” stated Maresca, whose staff are two factors away from Arsenal and 4 behind leaders Liverpool, having performed a sport greater than the Reds.

“Many prime gamers have that [composure at key moments] – they appear like they virtually don’t care, but it surely’s simply their means and being that means provides them extra freedom.

“They will calm down, and you’ll see Cole is similar means. Cole was this fashion 5 years in the past and he’s nonetheless the identical. You don’t have to waste power to persuade him to be a special means.”

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Palmer’s further six assists in 15 Premier League video games put his direct purpose involvements tally this season solely behind Mohamed Salah, who has produced 13 objectives and arrange eight in 14 matches for Liverpool.

None of Palmer’s 22 Premier League objectives final season got here throughout the 180 minutes he performed in opposition to Brentford, who Chelsea host on Sunday (7pm GMT) – though he crossed for Axel Disasi’s 83rd-minute equaliser of their 2-2 draw away to the Bees on March 2.

“He behaves precisely as he wants, with a concentrate on soccer and the vital issues,” added Maresca. “An important factor is he loves soccer.

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“He’s at all times one of many first out for the session, begins to play with the ball and you’ll see in that second who actually loves soccer and people who simply play soccer.

“He’s solely 22 and there are lots of issues he can enhance… in the meanwhile, everyone seems to be marking him man-to-man.”

Palmer’s omission from Chelsea’s Convention League squad meant he was not a part of their 3-1 win at Kazakh membership Astana on Thursday, when Marc Guiu and Renato Veiga scored both aspect of Aleksandr Marochkin’s own-goal to place the guests 3-0 up after 39 minutes.