Defenders Reece James and Malo Gusto and midfielder Romeo Lavia will miss Chelsea’s journey to Bournemouth within the Premier League on Saturday (8pm BST), supervisor Enzo Maresca has stated.
Gusto withdrew from France’s Beneath-21 squad with a thigh downside, whereas fellow right-back James has not featured this season due to a hamstring harm.
“Romeo seems to be very shut,” Maresca stated of the prospect of Lavia showing for the primary time since Chelsea’s opening 2-0 defeat to Manchester Metropolis on August 18.
“My focus is the pitch as a result of it’s the solely factor I can management” ⚽️
Enzo Maresca on the possession saga at Chelsea 🔵 pic.twitter.com/G42ukamhDA
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Chelsea vs Bournemouth
Centre-back Wesley Fofana and talismanic attacker Cole Palmer have educated this week after lacking out on taking part in for his or her nations in the course of the worldwide break due to harm issues.
Maresca stated he would “sit with” Ben Chilwell and “discover the correct answer” to the full-back’s predicament after a deliberate switch exit for the previous England worldwide didn’t materialise earlier than the switch window closed.
“We’ll see [if] he’s going to be again with us for coaching periods, as a result of in the intervening time he’s not coaching with us,” defined Maresca.
“The explanation why he’s coaching aside is as a result of the thought was for him to go away. He’s in all probability going to begin to prepare with us – we have to resolve that. I believe he’s good. I noticed him this morning and he’s OK.”
🚨🔵 Enzo Maresca: “I actually, actually like Carney Chukwuemeka… however we’ve got so many attacking midfielders”.
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Chelsea ‘enhancing’
Chelsea have had a blended begin to their first top-flight season underneath Maresca, following up their loss to Metropolis with a 6-2 win at Wolves and a 1-1 draw at residence to Crystal Palace.
Experiences this week have prompt that membership homeowners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali need to purchase one another out, however Maresca provided little perception into any upheaval behind the scenes.
“The gamers are skilled sufficient to know that we can’t management these sorts of issues,” he stated. “The principle focus is on the pitch.
“I don’t know if one thing goes to occur, to be sincere. I don’t have an thought. The one factor I can say is that, from a soccer facet, we’re moving into the correct route.
“The group is enhancing. I used the worldwide break to evaluation the video games. Within the three Premier League video games we performed, it’s true that we conceded objectives, however we additionally conceded from Palace’s first shot on objective.
“Towards Metropolis, we didn’t concede so many possibilities, which is unusual towards Metropolis. Towards Wolves, we didn’t concede any photographs within the second half.”
Bournemouth have some extent greater than Chelsea after drawing towards Nottingham Forest and Newcastle earlier than claiming a dramatic first victory of the top-flight season, recovering from 2-0 behind at Everton to win 3-2 with the assistance of two objectives throughout second-half added time.
