Match Details.
Chelsea have won nine of their last 11 Premier League games (D1 L1), indeed since the beginning of May the Blues have scored more goals (29) and gained more victories (9) than any other team in the competition.
Cole Palmer becomes the first player in Premier League history to score four first half goals.
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Highlights.
Jadon Sancho has provided an assist in each of his first three Premier League matches for Chelsea:
- vs. Bournemouth
- vs. West Ham
- vs. Brighton
With just 19 minutes 57 seconds between Cole Palmer’s first and fourth goals, only Jermain Defoe (for Spurs v Wigan in November 2009) has ever scored four Premier League goals in a quicker time in the competition (17min 56s).
With his four goals against Brighton, Cole Palmer becomes the 2nd midfielder in Premier League history to score 4 goals in two separate games, the other being Frank Lampard:
C. Palmer:
- 4 goals vs. Everton (2024)
- 4 goals vs. Brighton (2024)
F. Lampard
- vs. Derby (2008)
- vs. Villa (2010)
Cole Palmer has now scored three Premier League hat-tricks, the joint-most of any Chelsea player in the competition’s history (level with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard).
Cole Palmer’s Premier League penalty record:
- 10 taken
- 10 scored
Most Premier League goal involvements since Cole Palmer’s Chelsea debut in September 2023:
- 40 – Cole Palmer
- 39 – Erling Haaland
- 34 – Ollie Watkins
- 32 – Mohamed Salah
- 31 – Son Heung-min
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