Cole Palmer and Noni Madueke tore Wolves apart in the Premier League this weekend as the duo dovetailed to devastating effect at Molineux.
Chelsea ran riot to claim a 6-2 win and Enzo Maresca’s first league win in charge, with Palmer and Madueke at the heart of the success. Madueke scored his first senior hat-trick in the win, with Palmer assisting each of his teammate’s goals.
It’s just the fifth time in Premier League history that a player has assisted the same teammate three or more times in the same game.
Premier League players to assist a teammate three or more times in the same game
Mike Newell for Alan Shearer (1995)
Alan Shearer’s partnership with Chris Sutton is often remembered as the duo that fired Blackburn Rovers to Premier League success in the mid-nineties, but the former also had another fine sidekick in Mike Newell. Newell assisted Shearer nine times in the 1995/96 season alone, as Shearer won a second successive Premier League Golden Boot.
Iconic Duos: Shearer and Sutton – Blackburn’s ‘SAS’
Stan Collymore for Robbie Fowler (1995)
Robbie Fowler’s scintillating hat-trick against Arsenal in 1994 is well remembered, as the Liverpool forward took just four minutes and 33 seconds to complete his treble at Anfield. What’s often forgotten, however, is that Fowler repeated the trick the next season.
Fowler downed Arsenal at Anfield for the second successive season in 1995/96, scoring another hat-trick in a...