It’s our new favourite time of the gameweek! Chelsea injury report time…
Their new habit of revealing the status of every player ahead of Mauricio Pochettino’s press conference is rather odd, and it doesn’t even stop him getting questions about injuries as you might expect. But they’re not giving up on it.
Overall, we’re in a better place than we were a couple of weeks ago.
Benoit Badiashile and Armando Broja have had two weeks in full team training, and must be ready for a place on the bench on Sunday.
Then there’s a bit cluster of players said to be just “continuing to undergo [their] rehabilitation plan.”
Marcus Bettinelli, Trevoh Chalobah, Carney Chukwuemeka, Wesley Fofana, Reece James and Christopher Nkunku. All of them have wildly different return schedules, by our estimates.
The bad news is Romeo Lavia, who has picked up what seems like quite a serious injury before
