Forgotten Chelsea star embarrasses Cole Palmer as Enzo Maresca sent cheeky three-word message

Jadon Sancho has poked fun at Cole Palmer ahead of Chelsea's clash against Leicester City. The Foxes will welcome the West Londoners to the King Power Stadium on Saturday afternoon as both sides look to climb the Premier League table.

Enzo Maresca will be eager to return to winning ways after Chelsea were held to a draw by Arsenal just before the international break. Despite winning just six points from their last five games, the Blues have climbed above Arsenal to third in the English top-flight.

Chelsea have showed great promise under the former Leicester City boss, yet they're only a handful of points ahead of Tottenham Hotspur in 10th. So, while the Lilywhites face Manchester City and the Gunners play Nottingham Forest, Maresca will be hoping to establish a cushion.

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This week, the Italian has been putting his players through their paces at Cobham training ground. During one particular warm-up drill called a rondo, Sancho was spotted nutmegging Palmer, which left the Blues squad in stitches.

The Manchester United loanee, who hasn't featured for Chelsea since the 2-1 defeat to Liverpool early last month, reposted the video to his Instagram story to rub salt into the wounds. Sancho captioned the post: "Someone check on my boy, they never learn! [eyes emoji and crying with laughter emoji] @colepalmer10."

While Palmer may be regarded as the club's talisman, he's still vulnerable to a nutmeg. Speaking to reporters ahead of the Leicester City clash, Maresca was quizzed on Palmer's role in the Chelsea lineup and whether he could play alongside Joao Felix.

"Yeah, this could be a target for the future; to see both of them playing together," said the Blues boss. "International break is good, first of all for the ones that don't go with their international teams so they can recover and for the ones that do go, some of them, like Joao, did fantastic.

"But Joao is doing well with us since day one. The only problem is trying to find balance when we are trying to prepare the game. For us, for all of the clubs, there is always a little bit of doubt because we do not know how they are going to come back.

"As I said, today is the first session - 48 hours before the game - that we worked with 12, 13, 14 players that were with internationals. Some of them came back this morning from Argentina, from South America, so it is not easy. We will see. We still have 48 hours."