{"id":65335,"date":"2025-05-05T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65335"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:40:20","slug":"palmer-breaks-silence-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/05\/palmer-breaks-silence-the-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer breaks silence, the net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer says he feels a wave of relief after finally ending his 18-match goal drought in Chelsea\u2019s 3\u20131 triumph over Liverpool on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The England international stepped up in stoppage time to convert a crucial penalty, sealing a vital win that boosts Chelsea\u2019s push for Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the club&#8217;s website after the match, Palmer admitted the goal was long overdue, having last found the net on January 14 against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt normal. Stuff happens\u2026 sorry for my language,\u201d he said. \u201cI went three months without scoring, but it just gives me more fight and motivation to do more for myself and for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder also addressed criticism from social media, saying he pays no mind to online trolls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial media nowadays is full of idiots, the trolls, and whatever. I don\u2019t pay any attention to that,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve scored today, and I\u2019m happy, but it\u2019s only one, and I\u2019ve got to keep improving and try and reach new levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palmer\u2019s return to the scoresheet could not have come at a better time, as Chelsea edge closer to their top-four ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Cole Palmer says he feels a wave of relief after finally ending his 18-match goal drought in Chelsea\u2019s 3\u20131 triumph over Liverpool on Sunday. The England international stepped up in stoppage time to convert a crucial penalty, sealing a vital win that boosts Chelsea\u2019s push for Champions League qualification. Speaking to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65335","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65337,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65335\/revisions\/65337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}