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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe wait seemed to stretch for an eternity. But when Palmer stepped up he made no mistake, scoring for a fourth time in\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0colours; each of them nerveless conversions from the spot. Pep Guardiola had said the really big clubs did not care to whom they sold. Had he tempted fate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Palmer was excellent here and so was another former City player, Raheem Sterling, who had scored for 2-1 at a point towards the end of the first half that came to feel like a lifetime ago. City thought they had nicked it when Rodri watched an 86th\u2011minute shot deflect savagely off Thiago Silva and fly into the opposite corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erling Haaland scored two more to make it 49 in 47 league appearances for City, Manuel Akanji got the other and it looked set to be a tale of heartbreak for Mauricio Pochettino and Chelsea. The manager was close to combusting on a number of occasions, driven to distraction by the decisions of the referee, Anthony Taylor \u2013 a perennial villain in these parts. Pochettino boiled over spectacularly upon the full-time whistle, feeling there had been a big foul on Sterling by the City substitute Mateo Kovacic moments before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, after R\u00faben Dias had dived in on another substitute, Armando Broja, to concede the last-gasp penalty, it was over to Palmer to put himself at the centre of the story. His goal celebration was muted, to say the least \u2013 in stark contrast to the mayhem breaking out around him. His insides churned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a game it was, the touch paper lit midway through the first half by a penalty award for City that was controversial \u2013 and not only because the visitors had played on while Chelsea had three players down. First Conor Gallagher pulled up after hurting himself in the act of closing down Dias and then, after City went up to the other end, Reece James collided with Mois\u00e9s Caicedo as they went for a high ball. There was no obvious clash of heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When City pumped it back into the area, Haaland put his hands on Marc Cucurella, who responded in kind and watched the City striker go to ground. Taylor gave what had to be described as a soft spot-kick and Haaland converted with relish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chelsea\u2019s response bristled with personality. They had brought the intensity at the outset, moving the ball quickly and smartly. Now they went up another notch. James led by example, driving from right-back; Gallagher was a non-stop source of energy. City celebrated when Ederson tipped over a James free\u2011kick. But Chelsea had the last laugh when Gallagher sent over the corner and Silva timed his run in front of Haaland to glance a brilliant header inside the far post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phil Foden shimmered with menace. He almost supplied Haaland with a cross after beating Cucurella and then, after stepping inside the same opponent, he blasted inches past the far post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was Chelsea who scored next, Sterling tapping home at the far post, although he had the presence of mind not to celebrate in front of the City fans after running past them. Palmer started the move, trying to play in James, who watched the ball break off Josko Gvardiol\u2019s foot before firing over a low first\u2011time cross. Back came City. Haaland was denied by a fine Robert S\u00e1nchez save after slicing on to a Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez pass and Pochettino was incandescent when his team switched off on a City short corner in first-half stoppage time. Bernardo Silva\u2019s delivery was wicked but who had tracked Akanji\u2019s run? Nobody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, Cole Palmer. How are your nerves? The question came in stoppage time, at the end of a breathless advert for the global pull of the Premier League.\u00a0Manchester City\u00a0led 4-3 but now the player that they sold to Chelsea in August stood over a penalty. Palmer had joined the City academy at the age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[12245,9951,7273,7034,169,5418,9331,11898,12635,5494,6310,12403,9505,9026,746,6159,5247,1966,8137,9606,1968,12791,11252,501,5886,4358,12113,12187,2291,4082,9605,13256,499,267,1260,11604,8708,11259,202,723,594],"class_list":["post-39907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-advert","tag-age","tag-anthony","tag-bernardo-silva","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-city","tag-community-shield","tag-delivery","tag-energy","tag-erling-haaland","tag-eternity","tag-european","tag-fans","tag-feel","tag-fire","tag-football","tag-guardiola","tag-haaland","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-man-city","tag-manager","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-city","tag-mateo-kovacic","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-menace","tag-n","tag-palmer","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-phil-foden","tag-players","tag-pochettino","tag-premier-league","tag-raheem-sterling","tag-rodri","tag-ruben-dias","tag-shot","tag-super-cup","tag-tottenham","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39909,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907\/revisions\/39909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Raheem](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6130b333f63727839a58697c6e42ed3f8acdbc25\/0_189_3808_2285\/master\/3808.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none\")