Thanks to the quirk that red-card suspensions are carried across domestic competitions, Cole Palmer will serve his one-game ban in Chelsea’s midweek Carabao Cup clash with Liverpool, ensuring he won’t miss a single Premier League encounter.
Chelsea are up against Manchester United next Saturday and in need of an emphatic response to this weekend’s dismal defeat at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur. Palmer may have collected the first red card of his senior career, but he wasn’t even Chelsea’s worst performer in a toothless 2–0 defeat to the club’s hated London rivals.
