Cole Palmer made Premier League history as Chelsea beat Brighton 4-2 in a six-goal thriller at Stamford Bridge. (More Football News)
Palmer became the first player to score four goals before half-time in a single Premier League game, hel𒉰ping🌱 Enzo Maresca’s side record their fourth straight victory in all competitions.
Brigꦰhton took an early lead through Georginio Rutter's header, but were powerless as Palmer took command of the contest.
His remarkable quadruple came in the space of 20 minutes - including a penalty and free-kick - with Carlos Baleba's strike to make it 3-2 swiftly cancelꦯled out by Chelsea's talisman.
Nicolas Jackson and Palmer went close after the break for the h🌄osts, who also had a Marc Cucurella goal disallowed for offside, but they held out for another victꩵory.
The Blues climb to third place, a point behind leaders Manchester City and Arsenal, while Brighton drop to eighth 💦after suffering their first defeat of the season.
Data Debrief: History-making Palmer does the damage once more
Palmer completed his third Pr🧜emier League hat-trick - the joint-most by any Chelsea player along with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard - in th💛e space of only nine minutes and 45 seconds.
The Blues forward also hit the post, was denied by the offside flag and then slotted a decent opportunity wide after the break, so we could have been saluting the first player to score six or more goals in a single Premier League gam🐎e.
His fourth goal was set up by Sancho, who became the third Chelsea player after Eden Hazard (2012) and Cesc Fabregas (2014) to provide an assist in each of his first🐟 three Premier League appearances.
As for Brighton, they are now without a victory in each of thei൲r last nine Premier League visits to London, since a 3-0 win over Arsenaꦕl in May 2023.
