Chelsea’s Cole Palmer scores record four first-half goals

Cole Palmer turned the primary participant to attain 4 targets within the first half of a Premier League match throughout Chelsea’s extraordinary 4-2 win over Brighton on Saturday, inflicting coach Enzo Maresca to explain the ahead as the most effective participant within the division.

The 22-year-old scored 4 instances in a devastating 20-minute spell towards the south coast membership as Chelsea bounced again from Georginio Rutter’s opener.

“I ought to have had 5 or 6 [goals],” Palmer instructed the BBC. “After I missed the primary likelihood I used to be upset however with the best way they performed and their excessive line I felt we would get extra probabilities.

“The supervisor arrange an excellent recreation plan, we knew the way to assault them with first-time passes in behind. Three factors is what we wanted and that’s what we received.”

Maresca agreed Palmer might have scored extra, however was stuffed with reward for his star participant.

“He scored 4, however he additionally might have scored two or three extra,” Maresca mentioned. “It is necessary he stays hungry, formidable, and I do know him from a few years in the past with the under-23s at Metropolis and with the primary crew.

“What he was as a boy is precisely what he was three or 4 years in the past. Targets, assists, finest participant of the Premier League — this does not change the best way he’s. He is a humble man, and for me it is an important factor.

“He is a high participant, and right now in soccer younger gamers can change fast. Cole scores targets and by no means adjustments, and that is an important factor.

“He is particular participant; he is a easy and humble man. He does not want to inform folks how good he’s as a result of you’ll be able to see it clearly.”

Palmer scored within the twenty first, twenty eighth, thirty first and forty first minutes of Saturday’s match.

With the injury already completed, Chelsea noticed out a far much less dramatic second half to earn their fourth league win of the season.

Palmer beforehand scored 4 targets in a single match for Chelsea final season in a 6-0 win over Everton in April.

He turned the fourth participant — alongside Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink — to attain three Premier League hat methods for Chelsea.

The sport towards Brighton was solely Palmer’s thirty ninth league look for Chelsea after becoming a member of from Manchester Metropolis in 2023.

Info from The Related Press contributed to this report