Cole Palmer scores four in Chelsea’s demolition of dismal Everton

LONDON (AP) — Cole Palmer placed on an unstoppable show with an ideal first-half hat trick and a fourth within the second half as Chelsea demolished Everton 6-0 within the English Premier League on Monday.

Palmer scored along with his left foot, head and proper foot within the thirteenth, nineteenth and twenty ninth minutes to turn into the primary Chelsea participant to attain in seven successive dwelling video games.

“All of it occurs so quick,” Palmer instructed Sky Sports activities. “We began effectively and I scored one other hat trick — buzzing. First one was my favourite, my proper foot was a little bit of a swinger.”

The Manchester Metropolis reject stroked dwelling an excellent first from simply outdoors the field and nodded within the second from shut vary after Jordan Pickford might solely parry Nicolas Jackson’s shot.

His third was an exquisite 35-yard lob after Pickford needlessly gifted him possession.

Nicolas Jackson added a fourth a minute earlier than halftime, and Palmer made it 5-0 from the penalty spot within the sixty fourth.

Substitute Alfie Gilchrist’s first objective for the membership made it six in damage time.

Palmer’s objectives took his season tally to twenty within the league, tied with Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland.

The end result prolonged a miserable few days for Everton. Simply hours earlier than kickoff, the membership lodged an attraction towards a two-point deduction for a second breach of the Premier League monetary guidelines.

Everton was docked two factors final week for overspending in a three-year spell as much as the tip of the 2022-23 season. It was a second deduction this season for Everton, which had six factors eliminated — diminished from 10 following an attraction — for breaching spending limits from 2019-20 to the 2021-22 season.

“We’ve already agreed that’s gone, we have now to get on with it,” Everton supervisor Sean Dyche mentioned. “(The factors deduction) is out of our management.”

Dyche described Monday as a “collective down day” and mentioned his crew was miles off the tempo.

“We are able to’t carry out like that at a spot like this. The important thing moments once they obtained probabilities, discovering the again of the online, we haven’t finished that every one season.”

The Liverpool membership sits in sixteenth place, solely two factors and two locations above the relegation zone.

After operating its unbeaten streak to eight, Chelsea was in ninth place, just one level behind West Ham. Chelsea has two video games in hand over the Hammers.

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