Cole Palmer

Midfielder24 yrs

Non-penalty xG per 90: 0.3713 non-penalty goals from 108 shots
Expected assists per 90: 0.4011 assists, 72 key passes
Finishing: +2.53goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90: 0.528% of Chelsea’s build-up value

Cole Palmer ranks 12th of 402 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 20.5m on average, with 44% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 17% of Chelsea’s attacking involvement, the largest share in the squad.

Against their position

107 forwards

Shooting

per 90

Goals: 0.75
Non-penalty goals: 0.44
xG: 0.61
Non-penalty xG: 0.37
Shots: 3.68
npxG per shot: 0.10
Shot distance: 20.5m
Set-piece share: 44%
Goals against xG: +2.0

2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Creating

per 90

Assists: 0.38
Expected assists: 0.40
Key passes: 2.45
npxG + xA: 0.78
xG chain: 1.06
xG build-up: 0.52
Assists against xA: -0.9

On the ball

per 90

6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Defending

per 90

7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Discipline

per 90

Yellow cards: 7season count
Red cards: 0season count

3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Ranked against 107 forwards with half a match a round or more, the same comparison the compare page makes. Where less is better, such as being dispossessed, the order is turned round, so a high percentile is always the good end.

This week

Gameweek 8

Next fixture

Gameweek 8

vs Tottenham

Sat 24 Oct, 16:30 UTC

Tottenham concede 12.9 shots a match and are 0.95× the league norm against forwards. Roughly an average matchup.

Projected shots: 3.47
Projected on target: 1.44

Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.

Shots

34 appearances

Over 0.529 of 3485%± 6
Over 1.526 of 3476%± 7
Over 2.519 of 3456%± 9
Over 3.513 of 3438%± 8

The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 5 of 34.

Shooting profile

108 shots

Where they shoot

108 shots

Every shot By zone

Opponent goalLeftRight

GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals

Cole Palmer, 2023/24, 105 shots in the final 35m, 22 scored.

left: 12%
Centre: 69%
right: 19%

share of their shooting xG

Chance profile

quality, volume and route

xG per shot: 0.165
Shots per 90: 3.68
Key passes per 90: 2.45
Average shot distance: 20.5m
From set pieces: 44%

How the chances arrive

Crosses: 0%
Through balls: 17%
Own dribble: 23%
Headed: 10%

Club role

Chelsea

What they are for

PenaltiesTakes them: 9 of 12 Chelsea were awarded.
Corners and set piecesSupplies 10% of Chelsea’s dead-ball danger, from 13 deliveries that became shots.
When it mattered17 of 22 goals came with the game level or Chelsea behind.
On the pitch77% of available minutes.

What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Cole Palmer’soutput.

Chances received

who supplies them

Raheem Sterling1.3 xG6 shots, 2g
Moisés Caicedo1.3 xG7 shots, 1g
Nicolas Jackson1.2 xG6 shots, 3g
Malo Gusto0.7 xG14 shots, 0g
Mykhailo Mudryk0.6 xG4 shots, 1g

Chances created

who they supply

Nicolas Jackson4.1 xG11 shots, 4g
Conor Gallagher1.5 xG8 shots, 1g
Armando Broja1.2 xG2 shots, 0g
Raheem Sterling1.1 xG11 shots, 1g
Enzo Fernández1.0 xG8 shots, 1g

Season record

2023/24

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Cole Palmer carries 8.4% of Chelsea’s build-up value.

Build-up per 900.522
97% of forwards
Possession value per 901.058
94% of forwards

Ranked against 107 forwards with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in, with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance rather than the chance.

Match by match

Match log

34 appearances, oldest first

at Bournemouth1 shot
1 on target

v Villa2 shots
0 on target

at Fulham2 shots
1 on target

at Burnley3 shots
1 on target

v Arsenal4 shots
2 on target

v Brentford2 shots
0 on target

at Spurs2 shots
1 on target

v Man City3 shots
2 on target

v Brighton1 shot
1 on target

at Man Utd1 shot
1 on target

at Everton5 shots
2 on target

v Sheffield Utd5 shots
2 on target

at Wolves2 shots
0 on target

at Luton5 shots
3 on target

v Fulham3 shots
2 on target

v Wolves4 shots
1 on target

at Palace3 shots
1 on target

at Brentford6 shots
2 on target

v Newcastle3 shots
2 on target

v Burnley9 shots
4 on target

v Man Utd9 shots
5 on target

at Sheffield Utd2 shots
1 on target

v Everton5 shots
5 on target

at Villa6 shots
1 on target

v Spurs5 shots
1 on target

v West Ham4 shots
2 on target

at Forest2 shots
0 on target

at Brighton6 shots
2 on target

v Bournemouth3 shots
0 on target

5 blanksno shot
not placed

Height is shots, solid is on target, and the dashed rule is the 1.5 line. The feed cannot date an appearance with no shot in it, so 5 sits at the end, counted but unplaced.

How to read the ties. Each rate ties back to the league average: solid where the sample is settled, broken where it is still being shrunk toward the league, an open circle where there is no cohort to rank against.

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