Chelsea’s Palmer Comes Back To Haunt Man City In Thrilling 4-4 Draw – News18

MANCHESTER, England: Former Manchester City participant Cole Palmer scored a penalty within the fifth minute of stoppage time as Chelsea got here again to attract 4-4 with the defending Premier League champions on Sunday.

Palmer left City for Chelsea in a deal value round $52 million in September and confirmed supreme composure to fireplace previous Ederson within the dying phases of an exciting match at Stamford Bridge.

Rodri had seemed like securing a win for Pep Guardiola’s group with a deflected effort with 4 minutes left of regulation time.

But referee Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot when Ruben Dias slid into substitute Armando Broja within the field. After a delay, Palmer swept his shot into the nook to cease City shifting three factors clear on the high.

Chelsea dented Tottenham’s title ambitions with a wild 4-1 win in opposition to Ange Postecoglou’s group on Monday and proved a problem for City, too, by getting back from behind on three events.

Erling Haaland fired City forward from the penalty spot within the twenty fifth after VAR adjudged Marc Cucurella to have fouled the Norwegian.

Thiago Silva evened the rating 4 minutes later with header from Conor Gallagher’s nook.

Another former City participant, Raheem Sterling, put Chelsea 2-1 up within the thirty seventh by tapping in Reece James’ cross after a sweeping assault,

The rating was even once more in first-half stoppage time when Bernardo Silva crossed for Manuel Akanji to move in.

City re-took the lead two minutes after the break, with Haaland the purpose scorer once more — sliding in to transform from shut vary.

Chelsea pushed once more for an equalizer and Palmer was near scoring when working from deep into the field and forcing a one-on-one save from Ederson.

Chelsea’s third purpose ultimately got here from Nicolas Jackson within the 67th. The striker fired in from the rebound after Gallagher’s lengthy shot was parried.

Malo Gusto wasted a golden likelihood to place Chelsea forward once more by firing over from contained in the field when he had the entire purpose to intention at. And that miss proved pricey when Rodri got here up with what seemed just like the winner.

The Spain midfielder’s highly effective effort from the sting of the field took a giant deflection off Thiago Silva to ship Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez the improper approach because the ball flew into the other nook.

It seemed like being a merciless approach to determine such an exciting contest till Palmer’s late intervention.

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