{"id":2394,"date":"2025-11-29T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:04:02","slug":"cole-palmer-injury-update-chelsea-forward-fit-for-premier-league-game-against-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"Cole Palmer injury update: Chelsea forward fit for Premier League game against Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week Maresca suggested that this Sunday&#8217;s game, which kicks off at 16:30 GMT might come too soon for Palmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His absence would have been a major blow for the Blues who are second behind the Gunners and will close the gap at the top to three points with a win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palmer last featured in a 2-1 defeat at Manchester United on 20 September, with Chelsea playing 13 games since across all competitions since then, winning 10, losing two and drawing the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joined from Manchester City for an initial \u00a340m in September 2023 and has topped Chelsea&#8217;s scoring charts in each of the past two Premier League campaigns &#8211; scoring 22 goals in his debut season and adding a further 15 last term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Summer signing Estevao Willian has shone in Palmer&#8217;s absence &#8211; with five goals across all competitions &#8211; and Maresca suggested the pair could play together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[It] depends on the game plan,&#8221; Maresca said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For sure they are exciting. Fans excited. We also are excited. We need always balance between two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Maresca suggested that this Sunday&#8217;s game, which kicks off at 16:30 GMT might come too soon for Palmer. His absence would have been a major blow for the Blues who are second behind the Gunners and will close the gap at the top to three points with a win. Palmer last featured in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}