Chelsea may be without a few key first-team players when they play Wolverhampton Wanderers in their next match.
Chelsea are currently preparing to host Wolves on Monday night in their upcoming fixture in the Premier League.
The Blues desperately need to end a run of five consecutive league games without a win, but the challenge against Wolves may have just become a bit harder.
The latest slip up was in the 2-2 draw at home to Bournemouth in midweek, where they wasted a dominant first half. Chelsea’s player ratings versus Bournemouth highlighted that a few individuals had an off-night.
Enzo Maresca confirms four Chelsea players are an injury doubt to face Wolves
Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca delivered some very worrying injury news on Friday afternoon during his pre-match press conference.
Cole Palmer, Levi Colwill, Enzo Fernandez and Romeo Lavia were all absent from the team’s training session on Friday due to injury problems. In fact, the quartet are rated as a “doubt” to face Wolves.
Maresca said via Chelsea’s YouTube channel: “We have Cole that is a doubt. He was not in the session today. Levi was not in the session today. Enzo was not session in the today. Romeo was not in the session today. We have three, four players that are a doubt for Monday’s game because the last game they got some problems.
“Cole, it was the ankle, first half [against Bournemouth] they kicked him. He didn’t train today. We don’t know if he’ll train tomorrow or in two days. It’s the same situation for Enzo, Romeo and Levi.”
The aforementioned quartet all started on Tuesday night in the Bournemouth draw and would all make the best XI for most supporters. Therefore, it’s a major worry if they’re all unavailable to face Wolves in a few days time.
Of course, Palmer’s absence would be the headline news if he can’t recover in time to play. However, it may be even more crushing if Colwill is absent from the heart of defence.
What will Chelsea’s defence look like is Levi Colwill is missing?
Wesley Fofana and Benoit Badiashile are already long-term injury absentees in the backline, so it’ll be a significant blow if fellow centre-half Colwill joins them on the sidelines.
If Colwill is missing from the defence, it’ll be intriguing to see how the back four lines up.
Renato Veiga is strongly linked with a Chelsea exit this month, but he may be the most logical replacement for Colwill in the XI. In fairness, he was named on the bench again Bournemouth despite the transfer speculation.
If we were guessing the Chelsea defence to face Wolves, we’d go with Reece James and Marc Cucurella at full-back. Meanwhile, Veiga and Trevoh Chalobah could be a potential centre-back partnership, which is a sentence that seemed impossible a week ago.
