Chelsea’s weekly injury update, which always comes just before Mauricio Pochettino’s press conference, is becoming quite the feature in our lives.
Just a few weeks ago it had about 12 names on it, but it’s now thankfully starting to dwindle. There are 7 first team players on there today.
Four of them have the generic “continuing to undergo his rehabilitation programme” tag which puts them anywhere from a month to 6 months out. That includes Wesley Fofana, Romeo Lavia, Christopher Nkunku and Marcus Bettinelli.
Then there’s one player “starting the early stages of his rehabilitation programme.” That’s Ben Chilwell, who will apparently miss two months from now.
Finally, there are two players back “in partial team training.” Both Benoit Badiashile and Trevoh Chalobah were expected back long before now, although we won’t see either until after this upcoming international break.
At that point, we may also see Lavia and Nkunku starting to work on the grass too. We can’t wait.
