Cole Palmer lost his perfect penalty record after his spot-kick was saved by Leicester City goalkeeper Mads Hermansen.
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Palmer loses his perfect penalty record
Palmer, 22, saw his low effort well saved by Hermansen, who dived to his left to stop the England international’s strike.
Chelsea eventually secured all three points thanks to Marc Cucurella’s low, powerful shot that flew into the bottom corner in the 60th minute.
Palmer held the best penalty record in Premier League history before he missed his attempt at Stamford Bridge.
He was one of two players with a 100% penalty conversion rate in the last five Premier League seasons, with Callum Wilson being the other.
His perfect 12-out-of-12 penalty record placed him above Premier League legends Yaya Touré (11 out of 11) and Dimitar Berbatov (nine out of nine) on the all-time list.
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca confirmed that Palmer felt unwell before the match.
“Cole, yesterday didn’t train,” Maresca told a post-match news conference.
“During the night [he] didn’t feel well. And the reason why he didn’t train yesterday is because he didn’t feel well. So, this morning he woke up and he asked me: ‘I want to be on the pitch to help this team, this club to play [in the] Champions League.’
“So in the last two days, he was completely out [with] fever and I don’t know if it’s something I can say in English … Diarrhoea. So in the last 48 hours, he didn’t train and he was very bad with the fever and this kind of bad feeling.”
Palmer’s struggles
Palmer has recently struggled for form, failing to score in his last eight games across all competitions.
He netted 27 goals and bagged 15 assists in a breakout campaign last season.
Despite the lack of goals, Maresca isn’t concerned about Palmer’s form.
“When you score a goal you are more happy because your goals help the team to win. But overall Cole is fine. He’s happy,” Maresca told a news conference on Friday.
“He knows he’s struggled to score goals in this moment but that it’s something normal that during the season can happen. Watching him during the training session you don’t think it’s affecting him, he’s fantastic.”
“But this morning he asked to play the game and this shows how these players want to bring this club where this belongs.”
