Chelsea 4-2 Brighton & Hove Albion, Player Ratings: Another perfect 10 for Palmer

Yesterday at 07:03 PM

Community player ratings from Chelsea's entertaining win

1. COLE PALMER (10.0)

There were two perfect 10's in the over 12-year history of the WAGNH Community Player Ratings. Now there are three. And Cole Palmer has two of them. (Olivier Giroud has the other; Paulo Ferreira and Cesc Fàbregas also got 10's once, but those were rigged votes.)

Palmer's previous perfect 10 came for his four-goal effort against Everton back in April.

We're already running out of superlatives for the 22-year-old (22!), who's already become the fourth player in club history to record three Premier League hat-tricks, joining Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, and Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink. Not bad company!

He leads the entire league in goal contributions since the start of last season.

What else can you say?

"How about four?", indeed.

2. JADON SANCHO (7.5)

Feels like Sancho's still just coming up to speed, physically and tactically, but he's picked up an assist in each one of his three appearances so far, and won a penalty in this one as well (which for some reason doesn't count as an assist).

If he keeps this up, he will easily be the signing of the season.

3. MARC CUCURELLA (6.9)

Cucurella seems to play better the more hate he gets, and he seemed to use the boos of the visiting fans to put in a good performance despite the overall shakiness of the defense. Was a bit unlucky to see his goal ruled out for offside as well.

vs. BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION (PL, H, W 4-2)

EXCEPTIONAL (9.0+): Palmer (10.0)

EXCELLENT (8.0-8.9): —

GOOD (7.0-7.9): Sancho (7.5)

AVERAGE (6.0-6.9): Cucurella (6.9), Caicedo (6.8), Jackson (6.7), Enzo (6.7), Gusto (6.7), Colwill (6.4), Madueke (6.1), Neto (6.1, sub)

SUBPAR (5.0-5.9): Nkunku (5.8, sub), Mudryk (5.4, sub)

BAD (4.0-4.9): —

TERRIBLE (3.0-3.9): Sánchez (3.9)

OVERALL