{"id":5642,"date":"2023-11-13T07:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2023-11-13T07:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T07:16:41","slug":"palmer-denies-man-city-victory-in-8-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/13\/palmer-denies-man-city-victory-in-8-goal-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Denies Man City Victory in 8-Goal Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cole Palmer struck a last-gasp penalty against his former club Manchester City in the fourth minute of stoppage time to snatch a sensational 4-4 draw for Chelsea at the end of a superb, battling encounter at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Premier League champions thought they had won it through Rodri\u2019s goal, deflected in off the unfortunate Thiago Silva four minutes from time, but were left stunned in the dying seconds when substitute Armando Broja burst into the box and drew a foul from Ruben Dias, with Palmer dispatching his spot-kick under pressure to send home fans into raptures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Earlier, Erling Haaland had scored to twice give City the lead, first from the penalty spot before Chelsea turned the game on its head with goals from Silva and Raheem Sterling.<\/p>\n

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Manuel Akanji headed an equaliser on the stroke of half-time before Haaland\u2019s second made it 3-2 minutes after the restart, but still Chelsea were not done, hitting back to make it 3-3 through Nicolas Jackson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then came what looked the winner from Rodri, before Palmer\u2019s late, late intervention served to hurt the side he left for west London in September.<\/p>\n

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It had all begun with a controversial penalty award for City after 21 minutes. Marc Cucurella and Haaland appeared to be engaged in an even tussle as the ball was floated in to the six-yard box but, as the pair went to ground, the defender was penalised for having hauled Haaland down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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VAR checked and found no reason to overturn referee Anthony Taylor\u2019s decision, and after a lengthy delay Haaland kept his cool to beat Robert Sanchez from the spot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chelsea had made the brighter start and now they sought an instant reply. Reece James forced Ederson into an athletic fingertip save from a well-struck free-kick just outside the box.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was to be a momentary reprieve. From the resulting corner swung in by the right foot of Conor Gallagher, Silva slipped his man and with a glancing header that zipped across the face of the goal and in he drew his side level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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City almost hit back instantly through Haaland, but Phil Foden\u2019s cross was fractionally too deep and the striker could only turn it into the side netting. Minutes later, Foden tried to do it himself with a wicked drive with his left foot that bent inches past a post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cole Palmer struck a last-gasp penalty against his former club Manchester City in the fourth minute of stoppage time to snatch a sensational 4-4 draw for Chelsea at the end of a superb, battling encounter at Stamford Bridge. The Premier League champions thought they had won it through Rodri\u2019s goal, deflected in off the unfortunate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chelsea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}