Cole Palmer’s opener for Chelsea against Bournemouth was labelled ‘rude’ and ‘out of order’ by Rio Ferdinand, who loved what he saw from the England star.
The Blues went ahead early thanks to a brilliantly taken goal from the 22-year-old at Stamford Bridge.
Nicolas Jackson produced good work as he held up the ball and then powered towards the Cherries’ penalty box before sliding a nice through ball to Palmer.
From there the former Manchester City man calmly dummied a shot, put the Bournemouth goalkeeper on the floor and rolled the ball into an empty net.
Ferdinand loved the audacity, saying it was outrageous from the Chelsea superstar.
‘It’s rude,’ Ferdinand said on TNT Sports. ‘It was rude. It’s out of order, it’s in the school playground you do that. It’s rude, outrageous really.
‘I’ll pay to watch him every day of the week because I know I’m going to get something like that that will get me off my seat and make me scream.’
Peter Crouch was stunned by the calm nature of Palmer under pressure, saying he reminds him of former Arsenal and Real Madrid star Mesut Ozil.
‘It reminds me of Mesut Ozil a little bit, the calmness, it’s almost too casual, just sits the goalkeeper down,’ said Crouch.
‘The amount of people that get in that position, packed stadium and lash it over the bar or wide, the ability for a young man to stop it, put the keeper down and roll it into an empty net, that’s what makes him special.’
It was a great start for Chelsea and they had chances to extend their lead, but they spurned them and fell behind after goals from Justin Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo.
It took a stoppage time free-kick from Reece James to rescue a point, although Enzo Maresca felt his team deserved all three.
The Blues boss told the BBC: ‘I think first half we completely deserved to win the game. We should have scored three goals. When we conceded in the second half, we dropped. We deserved to win the game when we created so many chances.
‘It was one of the best parts of the season in the first half. We were aggressive and the chances we created. We are a bit unlucky in scoring goals. We miss and then we concede. We need to continue. The bad thing as I said is that after the penalty, we drop and there is no reason we need to do that.
‘The game was completely in our control and it’s something we need to improve.
‘I have concerns always even when we are winning matches. This is the Premier League, when you don’t create chances and don’t score then you have to be more concerned.’
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