COLE CAN LIGHT A FIRE UNDER ENGLAND
Daily Mirror UK|June 27, 2024
Laid back, inventive, fresh and a goal threat... only Southgate's blind loyalty to Saka can prevent Palmer starting for struggling Three Lions on Sunday
ANDY DUNN
COLE CAN LIGHT A FIRE UNDER ENGLAND

COLE PALMER is a shy, quiet lad but one of his shrugs speaks a thousand words.

Asked whether or not he was nervous ahead of his tournament debut, there was a quick flick of the shoulders and a 'nah'.

This 20-year-old really is ice cool.

And after the impact he made in his 23 minutes in Cologne, Palmer should be a stone-cold in certainty to start Gelsenkirchen on Sunday.

Surely only blind loyalty to a player who has served Gareth Southgate so well can prevent Palmer from making the line-up in the last 16?

But the England coach has to accept that Bukayo Saka has gone quite seriously off the boil and Palmer is a player who can, quite simply, make things happen.

Palmer is fresh, having not started a football match in almost three weeks.

Palmer is inventive with both feet and, having been educated at the Pep school of passing, can split open a defence with one short stroke of the boot.

この記事は Daily Mirror UK の June 27, 2024 版に掲載されています。

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この記事は Daily Mirror UK の June 27, 2024 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。