The following injury update has been provided ahead of Chelsea’s Premier League match against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge. The following injury update has been provided ahead of Chelsea’s Premier League match against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea have dropped a double injury update ahead of their Premier League clash with Aston Villa on Sunday. Mauricio Pochettino was without 12 players for the 0-0 draw with Bournemouth last week and had been hoping to welcome back several of his stars in the weeks after the international break.
Moises Caicedo, who came back from the fortnight away with his country with a knock, was the most notable absence from the squad. He had been seen with strapping to his knee in training with Ecuador and played twice during the break
including with extra support for his leg
Madueke was also left off the list of players and has been seen in training. He is expected to be available for the clash. There is also an update on Benoit Badiashile.
The Frenchman is yet to play this season after a damaging injury was picked up towards the back end of last term. He missedbeen making good progress towards a return. However, football.london understands that the 22-year-old has had a small setback in his
what I can tell the fans is the circumstance, that we cannot change, the reality we cannot change. We have too many players [missing], of course we are a team that will be strong if we are all together
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“Even Manchester City, Arsenal, all the teams, with normal circumstances with all the squad fit of course can compete for everything. Why is it different for us? Why? It is because of what?
“We don’t have all the squad available from the beginning of the season. What can we do? For me I have nothing to say. The fans can do whatever they want. We know what we need to do, we are strong in our belief
“We have had bad luck. We had 12 injured (out) today, plus Noni [Madueke], [Marc] Cucurella and [Moises] Caicedo. Then we have three, four young guys and two keepers on the bench. Okay am I going to cry, am I going to complain? I need to accept this, the challenge and keep being positive.
“Of course, Bournemouth is a good team and is going to compete. Every team is going to compete and be difficult. Fair or not fair, that is the circumstance we need to accept and we need to be positive, and patient.
“We are not going to change in the way we are doing things and then we have our opinion, our reality. We assess the team and in our opinion, our reality, in our circumstance, we are doing very, very good things, more than people can expect. But Chelsea’s expectation is to win.”
