Chelsea take on Arsenal this evening with a few minor injury doubts.
Manager Liam Rosenior has played up the problems felt by Reece James, Malo Gusto and Cole Palmer, leaving us all a little in the dark about how bad they are and whether we should expect to see them tonight.
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On the London is Blue podcast, Matt Law gave his thoughts, as well as pointing out a potentially big moment for another recovering Blue:
“I would have Reece [James] in my probable eleven for the Arsenal match. I haven’t heard anything,” the Chelsea correspondent said.
“Malo [Gusto] seems to have an injury, I don’t quite know where that stands… and you’ve got [Dario] Essugo coming back, that’s a big boost. Essugo gives them some really decent options. You’ve got FA Cup coming up, they’ve got a tie in the FA Cup away at Hull that you’d expect them to get through.
“That’s a match that Essugo could play in, and if they go through in the FA Cup, that would give him the chance for some minutes.
“He needs some minutes, not just for his fitness, but also to start feeling his way into English football.”
You can see Law speaking in the clip embedded here:
https://twitter.com/LondonBluePod/status/2011413906947035374
In other news…
Teddy Sharman-Lowe has been doing well at Bolton, but Chelsea are apparently thinking of recalling him. It’s an interesting situation we looked into here.
Another loan with a changing situation is that of David Datro Fofana. Chelsea want to sell him so they can free up a foreign loan slot – potentially to be used on Slonina or Jorgensen.
