{"id":80191,"date":"2025-12-14T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80191"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:34:54","slug":"palmer-shines-as-chelsea-beat-everton-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/14\/palmer-shines-as-chelsea-beat-everton-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Shines as Chelsea Beat Everton 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer marked his return with a goal as Chelsea defeated Everton 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, ending a four-game winless run and moving back into the Premier League top four.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old midfielder, out for two months with a groin injury and fractured toe, opened the scoring in the 21st minute after Malo Gusto set him up.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea doubled their lead in first-half stoppage time when Gusto converted Pedro Neto\u2019s cut-back.<\/p>\n<p>Everton had opportunities to pull one back, with Robert Sanchez saving Jack Grealish and Iliman Ndiaye hitting the post.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea nearly made it three, but Pickford tipped Reece James\u2019 free-kick over the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Cole Palmer marked his return with a goal as Chelsea defeated Everton 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, ending a four-game winless run and moving back into the Premier League top four. The 23-year-old midfielder, out for two months with a groin injury and fractured toe, opened the scoring in the 21st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80191","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=80191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80194,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80191\/revisions\/80194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}