Chelsea’s Cole Palmer shall be absent for one more week as a result of he fractured his toe when he stubbed it on a door on Wednesday evening.
The England ahead was set to renew first-team coaching this week after two months out with a groin harm.
However the 23-year-old will stay out for barely longer due to the harm to the small toe on his favoured left foot.
He’ll miss the Blues’ subsequent three fixtures – Saturday’s Premier League recreation at Burnley, Tuesday’s Champions League fixture in opposition to Barcelona and subsequent weekend’s match at residence to Arsenal.
“He’s most likely not out there for Saturday for positive, Barcelona for positive or Arsenal for positive,” stated Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca.
“Sadly, he had an accident at residence the place he hit his toe. It’s nothing necessary, however he will not be again within the subsequent week.
“I get up many occasions throughout the evening – I hit my head, my legs, my every little thing – so it might occur.”
Palmer’s most up-to-date look was throughout Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Manchester United on 20 September.
The Blues have performed 11 video games in all competitions since then – profitable eight and shedding two – and sit third within the Premier League desk.
“I believe that his team-mates are higher gamers with Cole taking part in,” added Maresca. “I really feel a lot better when Cole is on the pitch, and all of us need Cole on the pitch.
“On the similar time, when Cole shouldn’t be on the pitch, we have to discover a answer. The group is doing very properly however we’re higher with Cole. He was virtually again with us.”
Enzo Fernandez, Pedro Neto and Benoit Badiashile are all out there for the journey to Turf Moor.
Chelsea have Raheem Sterling and Axel Disasi of their so-called ‘bomb squad’ and Maresca confirmed nothing has modified with the pair, regardless of the defender’s involvement with the Below-21s and first-team coaching throughout the worldwide break.
“Axel and Raheem are Chelsea gamers,” he stated. “Axel helps the second group, he is serving to the youthful gamers.
“Throughout the worldwide break we had simply 5, six gamers right here, so we would have liked some second-team gamers. Axel was a part of some periods with second-team gamers, however I believe it was only one session with us.”
