Chelsea’s Cole Palmer might be absent for one more week as a result of he fractured his toe when he stubbed it on a door on Wednesday night time.
The England ahead was set to renew first-team coaching this week after two months out with a groin damage.
However the 23-year-old will stay out for barely longer due to the damage 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 towards Barcelona and subsequent weekend’s match at dwelling to Arsenal.
“He’s in all probability not obtainable for Saturday for positive, Barcelona for positive or Arsenal for positive,” stated Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca.
“Sadly, he had an accident at dwelling the place he hit his toe. It’s nothing essential, however he will not be again within the subsequent week.
“I get up many instances throughout the night time – I hit my head, my legs, my every little thing – so it might probably 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 – successful 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 identical time, when Cole shouldn’t be on the pitch, we have to discover a answer. The crew is doing very effectively however we’re higher with Cole. He was nearly again with us.”
Enzo Fernandez, Pedro Neto and Benoit Badiashile are all obtainable 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 Beneath-21s and first-team coaching throughout the worldwide break.
“Axel and Raheem are Chelsea gamers,” he stated. “Axel helps the second crew, he is serving to the youthful gamers.
“Through 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 classes with second-team gamers, however I believe it was only one session with us.”
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