Cole Palmer claimed that Chelsea “earned better than they got” when they fell against a 3-1 defeat in their opening champion competition match against Bayern Munich.
The blues were 2-0 within 27 minutes, with Trevoh Chalobah scored his own goal and Harry Kane yielded a fine.
Palmer stopped the shortage with an excellent strike in the 29th minute, but could not inspire his teammates into a comeback, where Kane Bayern put back in control after the hour.
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And the 23-year-old felt that Chelsea could easily have come with a positive result from the Allianz Arena.
“I thought we played well. We showed that we deserve to play here. The three goals we have admitted were our own fault. We had opportunities,” Palmer told Dazn.
“We turned them off well, but some opportunities we missed. They are a good team. We earned better than what we got.
“If you make mistakes at the highest level, it is always difficult.”
Cole Palmer made his 100th performance for Chelsea in the 3-1 defeat against Bayern Munich tonight.
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Palmer, who also created two chances and registered a 100% pass -in the last third part, has now contributed to 73 goals (45 scored, 28 helped) since he made his debut for Chelsea in September 2023 for Chelsea.
Under Premier League players in all competitions during this period, only Mohamed Salah (97) and Erling Haaland (85) have registered more combined goals and assists.
Palmer was one of the nine Champions League -Debutanants for Chelsea on Wednesday, together with Robert Sanchez, Malo Gusto, Tosin Adarabiayo, Moses Caicedo, Pedro Neto, Andrey Santos, Estevao and Joao Pedro.
It is the highest number of debutants that the club ever held in a single match in the competition, while head coach Enzo Maresca also supervised his Maiden Champions League match.
Indeed, in 25 years and 122 days on average, Chelsea played their third-year start XI in a Champions League-EX match, behind Ajax in October 2019 (25 years, 71 days) and CSKA Moscow in November 2004 (24 years, 323 days), and Maresca thought there were lessons to be taken.
“In general, the performance was pretty good. We started for 20 minutes and created two or three chances. When we gave a goal, we could have avoided the game a bit,” Maresca told TNT Sports.
“Once we had admitted the third goal, the game changed again. We admitted a goal that the game was killed. We were in the game until the end.
“We can learn from this game. First of all, this kind of game has to play you 95 minutes in the right way, not just for part of the game. Sometimes we were not good enough.
“Now it’s time to recover because we have a difficult game [against Manchester United on Saturday]. “
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