Cole Palmer has joined an exclusive Premier League club after tearing Wolves apart on Sunday.
The Chelsea star was in electric form at Molineux, bagging an unbelievable four goal contributions before the 63rd minute.
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After Nicolas Jackson’s early goal and Matheus Cunha’s equaliser, Palmer scored his first goal of the season just before half time.
Wolves then levelled the score again through Jorgen Strand Larsen to make it 2-2 – but after the break, Palmer turned things up a notch.
The England international set up all three of Noni Madueke’s goals, with the winger netting his first ever senior career hat-trick.
Madueke – who had rattled Wolves fan with an X-rated Instagram post earlier that day – pointed at Palmer as he celebrated to praise him for his role in his treble.
As a result of his three assists for Madueke, Palmer is now one of five players to have assisted each goal for a teammate’s hat-trick in Premier League history.
Mike Newell set up Alan Shearer’s Blackburn hat-trick against Coventry in 1995.
Stan Collymore did the same for Robbie Fowler against Arsenal in the same year with Liverpool.
Thierry Henry assisted Freddie Ljungberg’s treble against Sunderland in 2003.
The last Premier League player to achieve the feat before Palmer was ex-Tottenham striker Harry Kane in 2020.
He set up Heung-Min Son three times against Southampton, as well as scoring one himself in the 5-2 win over the Saints.
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Palmer has now netted a whopping 26 goals and grabbed 18 assists for Chelsea since signing from Manchester City last summer.
The forward joined for a fee of £42.5million.
Joao Felix came on to score Chelsea’s sixth goal of the afternoon on his second debut for the Blues, firing home ex-Wolves star Pedro Neto’s cross – as if Wolves needed more salt rubbed into their wounds…
Speaking about Palmer, Madueke said after the game: “He is cold and I am fire, so… it mixes well!
“He has always got the ability to play the right pass at the right time.
“So we can say it’s brilliant!”
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