Chelsea 4-4 Manchester City: Cole Palmer hits late penalty to deny former club victory

Cole Palmer’s stoppage-time penalty denied former club Manchester City victory in a thriller towards Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

City thought they’d the three factors when Rodri’s shot from the sting of the realm touched off Thiago Silva previous Chelsea keeper Robert Sanchez with 4 minutes left.

Chelsea, exhibiting very good resilience, weren’t to be denied and Palmer – a £40m summer time signing from Pep Guardiola’s facet – stayed cool amid the mayhem to beat Ederson from the spot to depart City only a level away from Liverpool on the Premier League summit.

The reigning champions led in contentious trend after 25 minutes once they had been awarded a penalty for Marc Cucurella’s pull on Erling Haaland, regardless of Chelsea’s protests that the full-back had been fouled first.

Haaland dispatched the penalty with ease, however the hosts had been stage 4 minutes later when Brazil centre-back Silva glanced house Conor Gallagher’s nook on the close to publish.

Chelsea turned the sport round when Raheem Sterling additionally scored towards his former club after 37 minutes, handing over Reece James’ cross after Josko Gvardiol’s mistake.

City, although, levelled on the stroke of half-time when the unmarked Manuel Akanji headed in Bernardo Silva’s cross.

Two minutes after the break City went in entrance once more when Haaland scrambled in Julian Alvarez’s cross on the far publish.

Yet Chelsea once more battled again and deservedly drew stage within the 67th minute when Nicolas Jackson pounced after Ederson pushed out Gallagher’s low drive.

Guardiola’s facet thought they’d received it with Rodri’s stroke of fine fortune – till the late penalty drama capped an entertaining, eventful encounter.

Defender Ruben Dias was penalised for a foul on Chelsea substitute Armando Broja and Palmer’s calm end left honours even.

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