Man City vs. Chelsea PREVIEW! Will Cole Palmer take revenge on his former club? | ESPN FC

ESPN FC’s Ryan O’Hanlon and Janusz Michallik join Mark Donaldson to preview Chelsea’s trip to Manchester City in the Premier League.

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Okay Manchester City against Chelsea before we speak about the game there’s someone going back to the EAD for the first time since he left to join Chelsea and he was the player that scored a penalty in stoppage time in a brilliant forall game back in November his name is

Cole Palmer and both Pep Guardiola and marito portino have been speaking about his return this weekend return to thead for for Cole do you think he’s got something to prove no he’s not this type of player that need to prove nothing I think he he really you know is very grateful with

His period in Manchester City and he left the club because he wanted to find you know another challenge or or to have the possibility to play more and yes here was uh he had up very well and he was lucky because he’s playing a lot of

Game here um no but I think he’s going to to be there trying to play and to perform for him and for him his team for his team you think P guarda regrets sing him that is a question for him look for me Manchester City have an amazing Squad

Unable player and of course uh the decision I think is is not regret or no regret like sometime we we make some decision that always we thinking the best for the team and that doesn’t mean that he’s good or not a good play is is about at sometime the period of the

Circumstance uh didn’t match and and that situation can happen player want to leave or and you cannot stop because you cannot provide the the game time you know um it’s it’s unfair to say that is is they are going to regret it’s unfair that they canot give the chance because

Manchester city is doing really well it’s one of the best team on the wall and and it’s not easy to find the space to play for a for a young guy yeah does have any doubts about his quality uh a part of the stats the way he’s playing is

A a star player so he’s already a an exceptional exceptional player so he traveled or he move on to out the minut the minutes that he has and it just was question of time and he showed his immense quality yanish it was probably the right move because there’s no chance that Cole

Palmer would have had the same opportunities at Manchester City that he’s had at Chelsea and you have to be fair to Pep Guardiola there’s very few players during his time at Manchester City when he’s deemed them Surplus to requirements for whatever reason Gabrielle Jesus Riyad mahz has

Obviously gone to Saudi Arabia he’s let them go he hasn’t got this one wrong has he no and he you know that’s probably that’s why he was the right move because I don’t know if he was good enough uh you know the flip side of it is if if

Pep guarda think you’re great he would have probably kept him right remember Phil foden for how long everybody was saying he’s wasting his time over there what does that mean for England he needs to go on loan here there and and pev guarda just said stay patient you time

Will come look what’s happening with ph Phil foden and by the way how long has it taken for him to be a starting player just about every game or even in the biggest games right this is you know you almost want to say a breakout season for

Him not that the other Seasons weren’t good when he was coming in so I think if if Pep Guardiola felt uh the you know Palmer was that sort of a player I think he would have gone way out of his way to reassure him that listen stay patient look at Phil foden

And you’ll get there so a little bit of both of course we’ll never know exactly what happened in those conversations I think the decision looks right because what’s he got 10 goals in the Premier League six assists 13 goals uh uh I think on the season uh at the age of 21

He certainly is an important player for uh for Chelsea but it makes you wonder if he stayed and if you look at photo in uh maybe that would have been a better option I would you know I wouldn’t leave I wouldn’t leave at that age uh uh

Manest City unless pep guarda told told me to do so 21 years old Ryan and we’ve seen him play in a more withdrawn position behind the strike we’ve seen him play through the middle for Chelsea as well I know they’ve gotten Kung and they’ve got Nicholas Jackson but he’s

He’s kind of been the focal point of the attack and in a number of games where do you think Cole Palmer’s best position is Ryan yeah like if we were having this discussion 12 years ago he would just be like a 10 playing behind a striker um that position doesn’t really exist in

Modern soccer which I think is kind of the the conundrum maybe of Cole Palmer going forward I think to me he reminds me most of like I mean he does it’s interesting yanish brought up Phil foden I think they’re pretty similar players but Phil foden is just a lot more

Dynamic um better athlete he reminds me a lot of like James Madison or Paulo dybala someone like that so I think I don’t know going forward I feel like it’s I mean it’s interesting because he is a flexible player which is nice as you’re kind of building a team like

Chelsea are theoretically trying to do so he can kind of play in a number of different roles I think probably I feel like I see him ultimately being like a like sort of a free eight the more kind of advanced midfielder in a Midfield three like that that seems like the most

Likely outcome I he’s I mean for me he’s he’s Martin ogard of of of of Chelsea I mean and you know the systems are maybe slightly different I think that poatina needs to get there I mean he’s he has in like a 4-33 where you play him on the

Right hand side and give him a a freedom uh uh to go right he can be protected uh uh you know obviously you know by by Enzo and GTO whoever’s going to be playing there but uh we’ve seen him try as a false nine kind of two Strikers and

Although he can play there uh and and even in wider in the front three it looked that way that he was tried there as well uh but I think he needs to be like oard he reminds me a little bit of him uh he’s not as intelligent just yet

I think he’s uh um he’s still a little bit about himself I get a sense a little bit where odard is looking to thread that beautiful pass I think Co Palmer it’s still um I kind of want to say selfish and not that it’s bad because you know obviously we’ve mentioned his

Statistics but I think he he needs to understand that his best quality is perhaps to find others and at this moment it’s the most porn quality because Chelsea do continue still to struggle in terms of goals right maybe it’s a little bit better than it was uh

But I think if you put atino you you I’d be sitting him down and saying look you you have the vision you have that quality you have that magic left foot you can reverse that pass you can play the cross to the far post which by the

Way he does but his decision making sometimes is not there yet and you know perhaps it’s theh um he only 21 as you said Mark so if I go back exactly a decade 10 years from this date I’ll find only two Chelsea wins at the etad now it’s the reverse fixture from mid

November it was a brilliant game it was four all it could have been anything Cole pmer had the guts to stand up and dispatch the ball into the back of the net for the penalty to get uh Chelsea a point yanish I noticed from that game

That City went with a 32 41 more recently they’ve kind of played a a 4141 or a 4231 obviously there’s flexibility for the fullbacks to get forward and it’s just a number but do you prefer them with a flat four with the two fullbacks kind of going up and down the

Line or inside or do you prefer what they had back then well I think as we’ve seen from Pep Guardiola it depends on a game I told you this is one team that I no longer need to know what the lineup is ahead of it right every game no matter where it

Is I look okay let’s see if there are any surprises let’s see if there’s any injuries let’s see this that or the other I don’t do that with Manchester City it doesn’t really matter it will matter now business end of the season in this particular uh uh game I think uh um

I don’t think against Chelsea when I look at their setup and it’s pretty transparent the way they’re going to play you’re going to continue to see uh you know I mean really three with one of the fullbacks coming inside I think against Chelsea that’s going to be even

More important because I mean I don’t want to say there is a little bit of strength there but I think you want to overwhelm Chelsea uh Chelsea there I think it’s one of those games where let’s be honest here I mean I worry immensely about Chelsea if you watch the

Crystal Palace game I mean Crystal Palace as bad and chaotic as they were it almost seemed in that game that Palace could have scored at any given moment and Chelsea in defensive transition is continues to be incredibly bad uh so I only see one outcome here and that’s Manchester City running all

Over Chelsea okay before we go on to Kil and mbapp just one final word about this game Manchester City against Chelsea Ryan back-to-back 3-1 wins away from home at Villa and at Palace and before that a 4-2 loss at home to wolves which Chelsea you expecting to show up at the ettihad on

Satday I think we’re going to see a team like the one that got absolutely annihilated by Liverpool at anfield a couple weeks ago um we should say a very uh undermanned Liverpool team too that day while City Holland and de bruo will both be playing in this game they’re

Flying I I there have been some weird Chelsea uh City games recently obviously the 44 but I feel like most of those weird games have happened at Stamford Bridge so yeah I I I have very little hope for Chelsea this weekend okay prediction time scores yanish what do you

Reckon I’m GNA go uh 3-1 to Manchester City okay almost tempted to go like 4-1 but you know somewhere there but now we’re at that stage where the opposition usually get a goal against City even though they don’t have much of the ball it’s it’s a qu

This season but City usually get three or four Ryan what do you think I’m going to say two Z and I’ll even give you I think Chelsea will have three total shots in the game this is this is by the way just just very quickly this is I’m G

To be looking at Cole Palmer not that it’s going to Define him in any way but if you remember in that game against Liverpool I mean those are the G it was a man again boys I mean he was non-existent in that game whatsoever and

I think the end we we we yeah we can’t put yeah but we can’t put it you know just on him to do that but I think for him to hold the possession to maybe initiate a counter I think he’s going to have to be important oh the

Liverpool game yeah he was he was great right at the end against Crystal Palace but yeah against Liverpool he wasn’t great so he’s going to have to have a big part but the Chelsea defenses as well it hasn’t been great that’s the big one this weekend Manchester City against

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