Enzo Maresca revealed that Cole Palmer was heading directly in the tunnel after being substituted during the 1-0 victory against Leicester City because he had played by the disease.
The Blues Talisman harvests a rare period of drought in front of the goal and did not take a gold chance to end his crisis when he intensified to take a penalty in the first half of the Sunday match. Although his efforts are solid, he was saved by Mads Hermansen while Palmer missed the first penalty of his senior career.
Palmer was then substituted in the second half – a rare spectacle inside Stamford Bridge – and Maresca revealed after the match that the English international was barely fit to play in the first place.
“It’s very easy: Cole, yesterday, did not train and during the night, he didn’t feel good,” said Maresca after the match. “The reason he did not train yesterday is that he didn’t feel well.
“This morning, he woke up and he asked me:” I want to be on the field because I want to help this team, this club to play the Champions League “.
“So, in the last two days, he was completely absent. Fever, is that something that I can say in English? Diarrhea. In the last 48 hours, he did not train with fever and this bad feeling. This morning, he asked to play the game and it shows how these players want to bring the club where it belongs.”
MARESCA continued to confirm that Palmer’s disease was at the origin of his substitution and his decision to go directly down, before the midfielder was finally returned to the bench.
Palmer is now closing two months aimlessly, while his last assist arrived in December. He will undoubtedly be eager to end the two sequences through the next two games of the Premier League of Chelsea, with the rivals of London Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur both on the calendar.
