Chelsea: Enzo Maresca issues Cole Palmer challenge as Blues boss makes Liverpool promise

Palmer is 1 of the astir in-form players successful Europe and was this week backed by Chelsea co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley to go a Ballon d’Or winner.

The 22-year-old has scored six goals this season, including four successful the archetypal fractional against Brighton, and his blistering signifier is fuelling content that Chelsea tin get a effect connected Merseyside this weekend.

Maresca said: “He is winning truthful galore idiosyncratic awards. Hopefully we tin execute thing arsenic a squad altogether. For sure, each the players tin bash better, they tin improve. And Cole is 1 of them, adjacent if helium is astatine a high, precocious level.”

Chelsea are presently 4th successful the Premier League aft a beardown commencement to the play and beating Liverpool would nonstop retired a existent connection astir their advancement nether Maresca.

Liverpool are apical of the array and looking bully nether Arne Slot but Maresca insists Chelsea volition not alteration their attack against the leaders, and volition spell determination to win.

Speaking to Malaysian broadcasters Stadium Astro, Maresca said: “[Anfield] is simply a bully environment. We are going to effort to spell there, play our shot and effort to get points.

“We program the game, but besides the different teams program the crippled truthful sometimes you struggle. But astatine the extremity it is important that the volition of the squad has to beryllium the same.”