Enzo Maresca says that Cole Palmer was sick for two days, but asked to play against Leicester City before he could score in the Premier League in the Premier League for the first time in his career in the Premier League on Sunday.
Palmer’s early place Kick was brilliantly saved by Foxes goalkeeper Mads Hermansen, with which the perfect record of the English international of 12 successful penalties for the club ended.
The former midfielder of Manchester City was shown with Chelsea’s team in a gym and embraced teammate Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall while laughing on Saturday, but Maresca described the 22-year-old as “completely outside in the past two days”.
“Fever,” said Maresca, via athletics, after Chelsea defeated his former club 1-0 by Marc Cucurella’s 60th minute strike at Stamford Bridge.
“Is it something I can say in English? Diarrhea. [On Saturday]He did not train and at night he did not feel well. This morning he woke up and asked me: ‘I want to be on the field because I want to help this team, this club [qualify for the] Champions League ‘. “
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Cole Palmer Disease: ‘He doesn’t train’
Palmer is the Talisman of Chelsea, but was surprisingly replaced after the break when their player of 2023/24 of the season went a ninth game without a goal.
Maresca said that Palmer had gone straight through the tunnel to use the toilet, but quickly returned. “In the last 48 hours he did not train with the fever and this bad feeling,” said the Italian.
“This morning he asked to play the game, and this shows how these players want to bring the club where it is.”
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Chelsea Champions League Chase
The victory of Chelsea sent them above Manchester City to the fourth in the table – the final position that guarantees Champions League football next season.
Fifth place probably seems to be sufficient to be eligible because of the coefficiity list of Competition organizers UEFA, who assign extra places to countries based on the combined versions of clubs from every country in Europe in the season.
Chelsea is currently in the round of 16 of the Conference League, but Maresca is routinely asked if he was told to qualify for the Champions League since he took over last July.
The blues last participated in the competition in 2022/23 and lost to Real Madrid in the quarterfinals. They were champions in 2011/12 and 2020/21.
