{"id":669116,"date":"2026-04-24T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669116"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:01:10","slug":"cole-palmer-injury-status-leeds-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/24\/cole-palmer-injury-status-leeds-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Palmer Injury Status vs Leeds Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea don’t have much to play for this season after being eliminated from the Champions League and falling out of the top four race in the Premier League. Without a win in five league matches, their campaign doesn’t have much left to aspire to. FA Cup glory remains their only chance of finding any success in a topsy-turvy year that’s seen them part ways with Liam Rosenior and Enzo Maresca. Ahead of the semi-final with Leeds, interim manager Callum McFarlane was able to provide an update on the health of Cole Palmer who missed out on the Brighton loss entirely.<\/p>\n

Will Cole Palmer Start for Chelsea This Weekend vs Leeds<\/h2>\n

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Latest Update from Calum McFarlane<\/h3>\n

Speaking in his first appearance in front of the media since becoming interim manager for a second time, McFarlane was asked about two key attackers in Palmer and Joao Pedro. The two missed the midweek loss to the Seagulls, though the Brazilian was also absent for the defeat against Manchester United last week.<\/p>\n

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The manager noted<\/a> that the duo trained and are looking good, the hope is that they’ll both start in the cup Semi-Final. Although that will be based on their fitness, they do have some time to get up to fitness with the match not taking place until Sunday.<\/p>\n

What This Means for Chelsea<\/h3>\n

The Blues have lost five league matches in a row without scoring a goal, last netting against Port Vale in the previous round of this tournament. With the attacking output drying up the absence of Pedro and Palmer made things far worse against Brighton.<\/p>\n

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The Englishman is key to how the team plays, he is the main outlet in attack and is tasked with receiving the ball and creating goals, without him, the side lacks a talisman. While he has been out of form, he is still better than the other options with Estevao also injured.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea don’t have much to play for this season after being eliminated from the Champions League and falling out of the top four race in the Premier League. Without a win in five league matches, their campaign doesn’t have much left to aspire to. FA Cup glory remains their only chance of finding any success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":669117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<\/smartframe-embed>","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11,1830,1831],"tags":[9938],"class_list":["post-669116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-injuries","category-starting-line-up","tag-cole-palmer"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669119,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669116\/revisions\/669119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}