Apart from being the most popular – and according to many, the best – football league in the world, the Premier League has a number of rather distinctive uniquenesses – “The Big Six” club, immensely commercial Fantasy game, a bunch of derbies… One of those particularities are the so-called “one season wonders.”This term symbolizes all those players who shone during one season and then returned to the shadows of mediocrity, and England’s top tier is full of examples like no other league in the world.Chelsea trio is ready for Tottenham in the battle for Europe!Swansea’s (now retired) Spaniard Michu was practically the player who invented this term, but there are many others – Jesse Lingard (West Ham), Papiss Cisse (Newcastle), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester), Wilfried Bony (Swansea), Dele Alli (Tottenham), etc.However, this season could (shockingly) provide us with not even a one-season wonder but a half-season wonder, although 3-4 months ago, nobody would have thought about that.It was January 14, and Chelsea barely salvaged a draw against Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge behind Reece James’ 95th-minute equalizer. Still, the scorer of the Blues’ opener is important in this story. Cole Palmer broke the deadlock, scoring his 14th Premier League goal.Cole Palmer has now gone ten consecutive matches without registering a goal or an assist:❌ Wolves❌ Man City❌ West Ham❌ Brighton❌ Brighton❌ Villa❌ Southampton ❌ Copenhagen ❌ Leicester City ❌ Copenhagen pic.twitter.com/sfeuVYCa2W— Alhaji Chesterfield of Billing Avenue (@kosemaniii) March 13, 2025 Since then, the popular “Cold” has experienced a terrible goal-scoring drought. It’s been 79 days since that opener against the Cherries and since Palmer found the net in general. In the same period, he hasn’t noted an assist either?!In the meantime, he’s played ten games (six of which in whole), and his only notable moment was a yellow card against West Ham. During that period, Chelsea faced some top EPL sides like Man City, Brighton, and Aston Villa, as well as some minnows such as Southampton and Leicester.There’ll be no other ‘cold’He remained “invisible” in the UEFA Conference League against Copenhagen as well, while even the penalty against the Foxes wasn’t enough for him to “break the curse.”Tonight against Tottenham, Palmer will have another chance. Yet, no matter if he scores or not, this season has shown his best as well as his worst and the upcoming years will tell if the group of players mentioned above will get some really cold company.PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 30 TuesdayArsenal – Fulham 2-1 (1-0)/Merino 37, Saka 73 – Muniz 90+4/Wolverhampton – West Ham 1-0 (1-0)/Larsen 21/Nott. Forest – Manchester United 1-0 (1-0)/Elanga 5/WednesdayBournemouth – Ipswich 1-2 (0-1)/Evanilson 68 – Broadhead 34, Delap 60/Brighton – Aston Villa 0-3 (0-0)/Rashford 51, Asensio 78, Malen 90+10/Man.City – Leicester 2-0 (2-0)/Grealish 2, Marmoush 29/Newcastle – Brentford 2-1 (1-0)/Isak 45+2, Tonali 74 – Mbeumo 64 pen/Southampton – Crystal Palace 1-1 (1-0)/Onuachu 20 – Matheus Franca 90+2/Liverpool – Everton 1-0 (0-0)/Jota 57/Thursday22:00: (1.65) Chelsea (4.50) Tottenham (4.70)***odds are subject to change***
