The Blues travel to the south coast, to Bournemouth in the Premier League season. Here are the latest Chelsea injury news.
Enzo Maresca and co have not had a really good start to the season and are looking to turn things around against Bournemouth on Saturday. They have accumulated just four points from the opening three matches and sit 11th on the table. Considering the quality options they have in their team should have done well. In a sarcastic way Chelsea and injury have a special love story in the past few years. Long term injuries have ruined their seasons in the past. This season also they have picked up some injuries at the very begining of the season. Let’s have look at some of the injury news and return dates ahead of Chelsea’s trip to the Vitality stadium.
CHELSEA AND INJURIES
Like we said earlier Chelsea have been very unlucky with injuries in the past few seasons. Despite spending big in the last couple of transfer windows it has hardly been reflected in their performances. This is partly due to the injuries that Chelsea players have went through. Last season Christopher Nkunku arrived at Stamford Bridge with huge expectations and was deemed a replacement to long lost Eden Hazard. But it hasn’r panned out well for the 26 year old. The French man got injured in the pre-season and missed out on the majority of his debut season. Pochettino couldn’t even utilize him properly as he was out for significant period of time. The same happened with Romeo Lavia. He made a big move to west london from Southampton for a reported fee of €62.1 million snubbing Liverpool. But again he was injured even before making his debut.
Nkunku and Lavia are like new signings for Chelsea this season. Reece James was out for some time during the previous season, Ben Chilwell, Wesley Fofana, Levi Colwill, Malo Gusto and the list goes on. These players have suffered long injuries since arriving at Chelsea. We don’t who are at blame for that, the medical staff who are inneficcient, the recruitment team who closed their eyes against the players’ injury record or the almighty who put Chelsea in this situation. Anyway a new season has began with new coach, new signings and new team at the back of the room. But Chelsea are against facing some real injury concerns at the begining of the season. Despite making overload of signings it is surprising to see them struggle with injuries.
LATEST CHELSEA INJURY NEWS AND RETURN DATES
Chelsea are again hit with injury crisis at the start of a camapaign. Here are the latest Chelsea injury news and return dates ahead of their trip to south coast.
Cole Palmer
Their star man Palmer was dropped from the England National team for their latest Nations League exploits. The exact reason for the same is unknown but according to the offcial Chelsea website he is set to be available in Saturday.
Wesley Fofana
It was earlier reported that Fofana had withrawn himself from the French national team inorder to undergo recovery treatmen for an injury he was nursing for a long time now. But like Palmer the defender is available.
Reece James
Club captain Reece James got injured before the start of the season and according to reports he is set be sidelined atleast till the end of the month. Maresca said on friday that james ‘need more time’ to recover. as per the Standard the defender is a couple of weeks away from full recovery.
Malo Gusto
Gusto was forced off injured during their latest Premier League match with Crystal Palace just before the International break. The 21 year old was also withrawn from the French U21 team. He is set to be sidelined for a significant amount of time with a thigh injury. The return date is unkown.
Romeo Lavia
Earlier it was reported that the Belgian midfielder would be available for this weekend but that’s not the case according to football.london. The Belgian is set to miss this weekend’s action also.
Filip Jorgensen
Jorgensen was forced off injured during his time with the Denmark U21 team. It still remains unclear about the details of the injury so the potential return date remains unknown.
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