Chelsea playmaker Cole Palmer has grow to be the primary participant within the 32-year historical past of the Premier League to attain 4 targets within the first half of a match.

The England worldwide’s flurry of targets got here in a 20-minute span in Chelsea’s 4-2 win in opposition to Brighton at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Palmer scored within the twenty first, twenty eighth, thirty first and forty first minutes, with the haul together with a penalty in addition to a long-range free kick that accomplished his hat trick.

No participant has ever scored so many targets earlier than halftime in a single match, in response to Opta, which supplies statistics to the Premier League.

“After I missed my first probability I used to be upset however with the way in which they performed and their excessive line, I felt we would get extra possibilities.”

Palmer additionally had a four-goal haul for Chelsea final season in a 6-0 win over Everton in April, additionally at residence.

The playmaker joined Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in scoring at the very least three targets in a sport thrice for Chelsea within the league.

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

He scored 22 targets final season, second solely to Metropolis’s Erling Haaland (27), and already has six targets on this marketing campaign below Chelsea’s newest supervisor, Enzo Maresca.

Maresca used to teach Palmer after they have been each at Metropolis. At the moment, Palmer was enjoying for Metropolis Beneath-23s.

“You’d need to be blind in case you did not see these sort of issues with Cole,” Maresca stated. “I stated that he scored 4 however he might have scored extra. I say at all times to be bold and hungry to attain extra.”