This time Palmer’s 4 goals touched Holland in the Golden Boot fight.
The battle to be the top goalscorer in the English Premier League was already crowded. Chelsea’s Cole Palmer scored 4 goals against Everton last night to reach Arling Holland. That Palmer, who had no goals in the Premier League before joining Chelsea from City this season!
Palmer scored a hat-trick within 29 minutes of the match at Stamford Bridge on Monday night. The Chelsea forward scored his 20th goal in the league this season from the penalty spot in the 64th minute. And by scoring this goal, 21-year-old Palmer beat City’s Norwegian striker Holland in the Golden Boot fight.
Palmer left City to join Chelsea to get a chance to play regularly. Although he played 25 matches for City last season, this English player was on the field from the start in only seven matches. And this time Palmer has played 43 matches, and scored 25 goals in all competitions.
Top goalscorer in the Premier League in the 2023-24 season.
Goal players club
20 Arling Holland Man City
20 Cole Palmer Chelsea
19 Ollie Watkins Aston Villa
17 Alexander Isaac Newcastle
17 Mohamed Salah Liverpool
17 Dominic Solanki Bournemouth
Statistics prove that he did not make a mistake. by buying Palmer for 42 million pounds.Palmer is Chelsea’s only consistent absentee throughout the season. Palmer, who played two matches for England. became the lifeblood of Mauricio Pacittino’s team in the first season. His 20 goals are the Premier League highest by any Chelsea player since the 2016–17 season. Diego Costa scored 20 goals that season. Chelsea still have seven games in hand.
Cole Palmewith the match ball at the end of the match.
Cole Palmer with the match ball at the end of the match AFP.
Palmer got a ‘perfect’ hat trick last night. He scored the first three goals, one with his left foot, one with his head and another with his right foot. Palmer now holds the record for the shortest number of ‘perfect’ hat-tricks in the Premier League since football data storage website Gracenote began keeping records from the 2008-09 season.
In the 13th minute, Palmer scored the first goal with a strong shot in a one-two with teammate Nicholas Jackson after he nutmegged Everton’s Gerard Brathwaite. He headed in the second after 5 minutes when Jackson’s shot was parried by Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. In the 29th minute, Palmer took Pickford’s pass and sent the ball over the goalkeeper’s head from 40 yards away. Then the fourth goal from the penalty in the second half. This time Palmer scored 9 goals with 9 penalties. Chelsea’s other two goals came from Nicholas Jackson and Alfie Gilchrist. Chelsea led 4-0 in the first half.
Palmer couldn’t believe what he had done, becoming the first Chelsea player to score a hat-trick in the first half of a Premier League match. “Everything happened so quickly,” he told Sky Sports after the match. We started well, I got another hat trick.
Despite Palmer’s excellent form, Chelsea are ninth in the points table. The team has 47 points in 31 matches. With 47 points, however, Chelsea has played two games less than West Ham, which is in eighth place. On the other hand, Everton lost 6-0 and is 16th with 27 points in 32 matches.
As many records as Palmer.
- Became the first Chelsea player to score a hat-trick in the first half of a Premier League match.
- Became the first Chelsea player since Didier Drogba (2010) to score hat-tricks in two consecutive league games at Stamford Bridge.
- First Chelsea player to score in seven consecutive Premier League games at Stamford Bridge.
- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (2000-01,23 goals) became the third player to score 20 goals in a season on his Chelsea debut, after Diego Costa (2014-15,20 goals).
- Goals from 9 penalties in the Premier League. Only Yaya Toure (11/11) is 100% successful with more penalties than him.