{"id":3613,"date":"2026-09-07T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:06:33","slug":"cole-palmer-is-placed-on-rest-enzo-maresca-tells-chelsea-talisman-to-sit-out-games-until-after-international-break-due-to-injury-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3613","title":{"rendered":"Cole Palmer is placed on rest! Enzo Maresca tells Chelsea talisman to sit out games until after international break due to injury concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>The injury comes at a galling time for Palmer, having hailed the club&#8217;s ability to go &#8220;toe-to-toe&#8221; with the best in the world after their narrow Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;The manager said to us before that he knows we can go toe-to-toe with anyone, and I think we showed that tonight despite the result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a good learning curve for tonight and to be back in the competition is nice, so we just need to kick off from here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not in this competition for it to be a learning curve for us. I feel like we showed tonight that we can compete and we want to do as best as we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palmer has now brought up a century of appearances for the Blues following his move from Manchester City back in 2023; he has a 10-year contract until 2033, so there is plenty of time for him to get back on the pitch and continue impacting games for the west London giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/cole-palmer-enzo-maresca-chelsea-international-break-injury\/blt6e20ed5c46299deb\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The injury comes at a galling time for Palmer, having hailed the club&#8217;s ability to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}