{"id":639296,"date":"2024-05-01T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=639296"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:55:51","slug":"chelsea-14-injured-players-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/05\/01\/chelsea-14-injured-players-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New Record\u2019 Chelsea Have 14 Injured Players for Tottenham Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/chelsea-injury-update-ahead-of-tottenham\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injury update<\/a> before their match against Tottenham this Thursday. With two new players sidelined, the Blues now have 14 senior stars out with injury.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Injury Crisis Worsens Ahead of London Derby<\/h2>\n<h3>Desperate for a Win<\/h3>\n<p>Chelsea ended April with only two victories in six games as their dreams of salvaging the season ended. The Blues crashed out of the FA Cup after a 1-0 defeat against Manchester City before slipping back to ninth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/25\/chelsea-stance-pochettino-sacking\/\" target=\"_self\">Blues Stance Revealed On Pochettino Sacking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The few remaining fixtures of the season could be decisive for Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s future as his debut season at Stamford Bridge comes to an end. Chelsea hope to get back to winning ways against Tottenham and claim their first victory since April 15.<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Update From Cobham<\/h3>\n<p>Chelsea added <strong>Axel Disasi<\/strong> and <strong>Thiago Silva<\/strong> to their official injury list on Wednesday, with both players now being under medical assessment. The club have also confirmed <strong>Levi Colwill<\/strong> and <strong>Christopher Nkunku<\/strong>\u2019s return to full training. However, Pochettino didn\u2019t offer an update on their availability for the Tottenham match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/23\/fluminense-move-chelsea-thiago-silva\/\" target=\"_self\">Brazilian Club Eyeing Summer Move For \u2018Incredible\u2019 Blues Defender<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked about his side\u2019s injury crisis, Pochettino told reporters (via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/chelsea-team-news-injuries-tottenham-pochettino-b2537854.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Independent<\/a>): \u201cWe all feel the responsibility and all of us can do better because there are too many circumstances that have happened and it is difficult to explain with one sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to try and improve, we have an amazing medical staff and coaching staff, who all have experience managing clubs and we need to put all the information on the table, at the end of the season and be better next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong>: Who Wins The Premier League?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THREE WAY WAR - Who Wins The Premier League?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XQStPx9Lw0?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The Injury Crisis Hits a New Low<\/h3>\n<p>With Disasi and Silva being sidelined, Pochettino\u2019s side now have 14 players unavailable with injury. According to X account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CFCDaily\/status\/1785643478002577495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CFC Daily<\/a>, this is a &#8220;new record&#8221; for Chelsea\u2019s highest number of injured players reported before a game since the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/19\/chelsea-jamal-musiala-transfer-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">Blues Face Stiff Competition For \u2018Really Exceptional\u2019 Ex-Academy Graduate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The closest instances were last weekend\u2019s match against Aston Villa and the away fixture against Sheffield United on April 7, with the Blues having 12 players sidelined on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the recent injury blows, however, Chelsea might soon receive good news regarding some of their longer-term absentees. Reece James, Raheem Sterling, Lesley Ugochukwu and Robert Sanchez have all restarted partial training and could return before the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have issued an injury update before their match against Tottenham this Thursday. With two new players sidelined, the Blues now have 14 senior stars out with injury. Chelsea Injury Crisis Worsens Ahead of London Derby Desperate for a Win Chelsea ended April with only two victories in six games as their dreams of salvaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5073,"featured_media":632736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1830,30,3],"tags":[4511,1922],"class_list":["post-639296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-injuries","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-axel-disasi","tag-thiago-silva"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}