{"id":505559,"date":"2025-12-09T02:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505559"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:14:11","slug":"maresca-reveals-why-palmer-will-miss-the-ucl-game-against-atalanta","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/maresca-reveals-why-palmer-will-miss-the-ucl-game-against-atalanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresca reveals why Palmer will miss the UCL game against Atalanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enzo Maresca has shared why the Blues star Cole Palmer missed the latest training session and why he won\u2019t be on the pitch today vs. Atalanta in the UCL. Palmer has been struggling with different injuries since the beginning of the campaign, but made his 1st start since September in Chelsea\u2019s goalless draw vs. Bournemouth over the past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>However, the head coach will not take any risks with his star to avoid potential injuries.<\/p>\n<p>As the EPL campaign enters its 5<sup>th<\/sup> month, Cole has played just 6 matches in all tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca revealed that Liam Delap is out with an injury and that they will not take any risks with Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news is that Delap\u2019s injury is not serious. And Palmer is still returning to his form, so he can\u2019t be on the pitch for 2 straight matches in 3 days. So we decided that he will miss the Champions League clash and that\u2019s for his good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blues manager revealed that Wesley Fofana and captain Reece James are healthy and could play against Atalanta tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Enzo Maresca: &quot;Cole Palmer will be out for tomorrow\u2019s game. It\u2019s a way to protect Cole after his injury.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He can\u2019t play three games in one week.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iFpoL12eVC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iFpoL12eVC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Touchline | \ud835\udc13 (@TouchlineX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TouchlineX\/status\/1998106237280633289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enzo Maresca has shared why the Blues star Cole Palmer missed the latest training session and why he won\u2019t be on the pitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505560,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20871,22959],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[20872,22960],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Enzo shared the reason that will sideline Cole for the upcoming match.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505561,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505559\/revisions\/505561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505559"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505559"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}