Thiago Silva (hamstring), Ben Chilwell (knee), and Malo Gusto (knee) had already been ruled out, leaving us with three fit senior first-team defenders: Trevoh Chalobah, Benoît Badiashile, and Marc Cucurella.
We’re supposedly working to fix things there, too, like in many other departments, playing and non-playing, but progress isn’t really evident here either.
“Of course, we are working to try and improve.
We have amazing medical staff, performance area, coaching staff – we all have experience managing clubs and being in this business.
“We need to improve with communications, dynamics, strategies, everything that we need to put our knowledge to try and improve.
As we approach the end of the season, Chelsea players are dropping like flies once again. We have just five games to go, including tomorrow night’s derby against Tottenham Hotspur, but at the rate we’re going, we might have to finish things out with an all-Academy starting lineup.
The likes of Reece James, Christopher Nkunku, and Levi Colwill may be getting back to fitness, but we’re now down two more defenders from last weekend, with Axel Disasi confirmed out as well. Thiago Silva (hamstring), Ben Chilwell (knee), and Malo Gusto (knee) had already been ruled out, leaving us with three fit senior first-team defenders: Trevoh Chalobah, Benoît Badiashile, and Marc Cucurella.
“No good news because we cannot recover any players from the list but have added Thiago [Silva] and Disasi, they will not be available for tomorrow.”
It’s been a bewildering season in many respects, most so perhaps in terms of the frequency and length of injuries suffered throughout the squad. Every single player has taken a turn on the injury list, and that’s not really an acceptable situation regardless of circumstance or whatever.
We’re supposedly working to fix things there, too, like in many other departments, playing and non-playing, but progress isn’t really evident here either.
“We all feel the responsibility. Then it is too many circumstances to explain why. It is difficult to explain with one word or one sentence. “Of course, we are working to try and improve. We have amazing medical staff, performance area, coaching staff – we all have experience managing clubs and being in this business. When some circumstances arrive, sometimes it can happen, of course we need to put all of the information on the table and to be better next season. “We need to improve with communications, dynamics, strategies, everything that we need to put our knowledge to try and improve. But I think the quality is here. [...] There are so many things that maybe are all together today and that is why we are suffering so many injuries.” -Mauricio Pochettino; source: Football.London
Whatever that means.
Anyway, another opportunity for Alfie Gilchrist to start then?
