Chelsea suffer triple injury blow ahead of Burnley with Mauricio Pochettino worry confirmed
Chelsea continue to be without a host of key players despite the international break offering a chance for some of Mauricio Pochettino's stars to recover from injury. It has been a common theme for the Blues all season and unfortunately is showing now signs of changing.
The club entered the final break of the campaign with a relatively small injury list compared to other points but even then there were six out. Just over a week on and that list has grown as Cole Palmer missed England training and the first match against Brazil through a knock — albeit minor — and Malo Gusto left the France Under-23s squad with a virus.
Carney Chukwuemeka joined his French teammate at the club's training ground as well, «to work on his fitness at Cobham, as he looks to play a key role in the remainder of the season,» having missed England Under-21s' win over Azerbaijan last week. He has had a series of fitness problems throughout the season, hence the heightened concern.
However, the ongoing problems are just as worrying as new ones. Wesley Fofana has been out for the entire season after picking up another long-term problem just weeks into Pochettino's reign, not seeing him in training has been no surprise for a while now but others have seemingly gone missing.
Pochettino hoped that Lesley Ugochukwu's Christmas Eve injury against Wolves wouldn't be a serious one, but he has not been pictured in work by the club since. Cesare Casadei came back from his loan at Leicester to cover for his absence after January, but no real update has ever been given.
With just ten games left in the league and a maximum of two in the FA Cup to come, it feels unlikely given the nature of the problems and also the way that members of the squad have picked up
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