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Nobody expected such a result, especially after 15 minutes of the first half, when Tottenham scored 2 goals and could have scored the third, and Cucurella made 2 gross mistakes that led to the goals and I thought Maresca would replace him at half time, but Cucurella changed his boots and helped the team to win.
Palmer is a phenomenal player and probably Chelsea's best transfer in 10 years. Palmer scored 23 goals and gave 13 assists in 2024, and before him only Hasselbaink did that 23 years ago.
It's a mystery to me why Palmer hasn't been nominated for the golden ball award yet with his stats.
Tottenham as always failed to show their character on the pitch and fell apart after four Chelsea goals and you can see that the team just has no character and whoever coaches Tottenham this always happens.
Usually in the second half Tottenham play better, but not in this match, they played badly in the second half so they were unable to take advantage and maintain their advantage. Even for the second penalty that Chelsea got, it was a violation that should not have been done by Tottenham's back line. And in this match, Palmer took 2 penalty executions, he kicked the ball well and I saw no hesitation when he executed the 2 penalties. so that in the end Tottenham had to lose narrowly in this match, and on the other hand thanks to this victory Chelsea managed to overtake Arsenal's position and now Chelsea is in second place in the standings.
Palmer incidentally also broke another EPL record for consecutive penalty kicks scored. Palmer has scored 12 consecutive penalties without a miss and it's not the end of the season, so if Palmer continues to score penalties accurately, he will set the record for consecutive penalties for a long time.
Tottenham as usual lacks stability and Postetoglou's team can beat anyone, as recently was the case with Manchester City and then again can lose to Ipswich Town or Bournemouth and therefore it is difficult to guess how Tottenham will play, but the team has a good squad and even without Kane it is clear that Tottenham can beat anyone, but without stability will not be able to claim victory in the EPL.