Four Chelsea games Cole Palmer is set to miss as Enzo Maresca learns latest injury blow

Cole Palmer is set to be out until November (Image: Maja Hitij)

The 23-year-old has only managed four appearances in all competitions in what has been an injury-riddled start to the season. Palmer, who played a starring role in the Blues' Club World Cup triumph in the United States over the summer, has missed Chelsea's last four matches after limping off in the defeat at Manchester United.

"We need to protect Cole, for sure, 100%," Maresca said last month. "Not only Cole in my personal view, because as I said now, because of the Club World Cup or because we never stop. We need to manage and protect different players. For sure Cole is one of them. Another one is Moi [Caicedo].

"Joao Pedro also, since he joined us, he's playing every game. The solution with Cole, I don't know. Now we have a meeting with the medical staff and we decide the best solution for him. But it's also a kind of injury that is not like black and white.

"It's not an injury that someday you can be better. It's not that you are playing and tomorrow you disappear. Sometimes you can be better, sometimes you can be worse. That is why we need to manage day by day."

Injury Update Premier League Chelsea Cole Palmer