Football
Chelsea: Nicolas Jackson moves out of Cole Palmer shadow to earn new status ahead of big summer
Of all Chelsea’s impressive performances in the first half of the season, it was, oddly, that in 2-1 defeat at Liverpool in October which came to be held up as the great show of their progress.
Of all the goals Nicolas Jackson scored in the same period – nine in 15 league games to start the campaign – it was of his strike at Anfield that you might have said something similar.
After four months without a goal (admittedly, two of those spent sidelined with a hamstring injury), Jackson now has three in a game-and-a-half, following his crucial winner against Everton on Saturday with two away at Djurgarden here, having only come off the bench at half-time in Chelsea’s 4-1 semi-final first leg win.
