Chelsea: Cole Palmer sends message to fans after goal drought worsens | OneFootball

The Blues talisman has now gone six league games without a goal

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The Blues returned to winning ways with a 4-0 thrashing of Southampton on Tuesday night, with Christopher Nkunku, Pedro Neto, Levi Colwill and Marc Cucurella all on the scoresheet.

The victory would have been even more emphatic, though, had Palmer had his shooting boots on, with the Englishman spurning a number of glorious opportunities either side of being denied by a superb Aaron Ramsdale block.

Palmer has now gone six league games without a goal and has not registered an assist since early December. Despite that lean spell, however, the former Manchester City man still has 20 goals involvements in 27 league games this term and has no doubt he will rediscover his best form before long.

“Well done lads +3,” Palmer wrote in an Instagram post. “Don’t worry, I will be back.”

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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca was clearly desperate to see his talisman back on the scoresheet, leaving Palmer on the pitch for 90 minutes even as the Blues cruised to victory against a relegation-doomed Saints.

However, the Italian saw the funny side of Palmer’s string of misses and, like the player himself, is confident that his drought will not last long.

“Cole Palmer, I will say once again, he’s a human being,” Maresca said. “All the human beings, all the big players, all the normal players, all the big clubs, big managers, we all go through a bad moment, or moments where we struggle to score.

“In this moment, Cole struggles to score or struggles to do the right thing, but he’s happy, he knows exactly that it’s something normal. He’s also lucky because Cole, even if he’s young, he shares time in a big club with the big players, and he knows that all the big players, they go through moments like this.

“It’s how you react, and he’s reacting perfect. He’s laughing, he’s happy, he has to enjoy football, and for sure, we don’t have any doubt, he’s going to score more goals.”