Christopher Nkunku is making the most of being in contention to play for Chelsea for the first time in a competitive game on Saturday against Sheffield United. The Frenchman is set to feature in a matchday squad at Stamford Bridge four months after he last played.
It has been a long road for the former RB Leipzig man after agreeing to join the Blues over 12 months ago. Now, having worked hard to recover from a damaging knee injury that has kept him sidelined for the first 16 league matches this season, his time is coming.
After weeks of anticipation that Nkunku would be back in the mix Pochettino finally confirmed his availability for the visit of Chris Wilder's men. «Yes, can be involved,» the manager said the day before the game. «That is very good news.
»To be involved tomorrow and be in the squad and to start to feel the competition and the teammate after the pre-season is good news for us. We need to be calm and quiet because it is going to put all the pressure on him.
«Now he needs to evolve, know the Premier League. It's a big motivation for us, for the teammates, and the fans to see a player that should be important for us and to be in the squad for the first time.»
Nkunku himself has been updating fans of his progress towards a return, posting online during his rehabilitation and ramping that up once he got back onto the grass and into team training last month. Now, on the day of his potential debut, he has once again taken to social media.
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