{"id":819929,"date":"2026-10-31T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819929\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:46:11","slug":"chelsea-v-man-utd-player-ratings-rogers-and-palmer-make-the-difference-how-did-martinez-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819929\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea v Man Utd player ratings: Rogers and Palmer make the difference – how did Martinez rate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Penders: The Belgian goalkeeper remains under pressure after his mistake against Tottenham<\/a> last week, but he was steady here and made several comfortable saves. 7<\/p>\n

Josh Acheampong: The young defender looked shaky early on but recovered well, making a fantastic block from a Bruno Fernandes volley and improving as the game went on. 6<\/p>\n

Wesley Fofana: The Frenchman made a brilliant block from one of Amad Diallo’s shots but was twice at fault as the winger broke clear on the counter-attack. His header also struck the post after taking a deflection off Moises Caicedo in a chaotic display. Fofana also won the second-half penalty. 5<\/p>\n

Levi Colwill: The England defender was part of an overall poor defensive display but did not make any obvious errors himself. 6<\/p>\n

Marco Palestra: The Italian made some good recovery runs on his first start for Chelsea<\/a> but was also part of a below-par defensive display from an organisational perspective. 7<\/p>\n

Moises Caicedo: Influential presence in a scrappy midfield battle, helping Chelsea<\/a> compete physically in the centre of the pitch. 6<\/p>\n

Romeo Lavia: Often the player who helped Chelsea<\/a> play through United’s pressure, sparking several counter-attacks with intelligent passing. Won the ball for Chelsea<\/a>‘s opener. 7<\/p>\n

Pedro Neto: Arguably Chelsea<\/a>‘s most dangerous attacker but finishing let him down, with one effort saved and another fired well wide in the first half. 6<\/p>\n

Cole Palmer: A quiet game by his standards and unconvincingly scored a second-half penalty. Aside from that, he attempted an ambitious effort from inside his own half and gifted United one of their major chances. 6<\/p>\n

Estevao Willian: Lost possession with his first touch but recovered impressively. Looked lively throughout, having a couple of dangerous-looking shots on goal and two that he scored but were ruled out for offside. His set-pieces were also of consistent high quality. 8<\/p>\n

Morgan Rogers: A surprisingly anonymous start and struggled in the number nine position until he was given the chance to run at United’s defence, scoring with a sublime dink in the 50th minute. 8<\/p>\n

Subs:<\/p>\n

Pep Chavarria (on 71, Palestra): Game was already won when he entered. 6<\/p>\n

Malo Gusto (on 86, Pedro Neto)<\/p>\n

Valentin Barco (on 86, Estevao Willian)<\/p>\n

Danny Welbeck (on 86, Moises Caicedo)<\/p>\n

Geovany Quenda on 90, Cole Palmer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Penders: The Belgian goalkeeper remains under pressure after his mistake against Tottenham last week, but he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}