Palmer sub due to illness, not penalty miss, insists Maresca

Cole Palmer missed his first Premier League penalty, having scored all of his previous 12 in the competition

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00:00Cole yesterday didn't train. During the night didn't feel well. And the reason why he didn't

00:06train yesterday is because he didn't feel well. So this morning he woke up and he asked

00:11me I want to be on the pitch because I want to help this team, this club, to play Champions

00:15League. So in the last two days he was completely out. Fever, I don't know if something I can

00:22say in English. Diarrhea. Can I say that? Exactly. So in the last 48 hours he didn't

00:31train and he was very bad with the fever and this kind of bad feeling. But this morning

00:36he asked to play the game and this show how this player they want to bring this club where

00:41this club belongs to.