There are multiple reasons behind the team’s slow start and one of them is the massive injury list they have at their disposal currently.
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Chelsea have not been able to make a good start to the 2023-24 Premier League season. The Blues have been able to register only one victory so far in the league and have just five points from the opening five games. Sitting in the bottom half of the table, it is not the start Mauricio Pochettino would have liked to make in his first season as Chelsea manager. There are multiple reasons behind the team’s slow start and one of them is the massive injury list they have at their disposal currently.
There are plenty of players out injured for Chelsea in several positions, which has had its impact on the team. However, there could be some good news during Sunday’s Premier League fixture against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge. Mauricio Pochettino provided updates on the injury situation of Moises Caicedo, Marc Cucurella, Noni Madueke and Armando Broja. “We need to recover players. It is important that many names and players start to be available to be involved in the game,” Pochettino, quoted by the club’s website, said ahead of the match.
He added: “We need to assess Moi tomorrow. He was training individually, not with the team today. We need to assess tomorrow and we will see if he can be involved on Sunday. Marc suffered a fever but has been back since when we restarted the training this week. Noni was involved also during the week in training, so I think yes he will be ready. Maybe we need one day more for Broja. I think maybe he can be involved Sunday, but we are not sure. We need to assess him tomorrow.”
The Chelsea manager specifically spoke about Broja, who has been out injured for several months now. “It’s the same situation we can maybe talk about with many different players. Broja arrives and maybe he will be involved at the weekend but it is after nine months that he has not been competing. We cannot put the responsibility on him. Always the responsibility must be on the team, the collective effort,” he elaborated.
He added: “It’s not only the offensive players who need to score, all the players involved in the team need to try to score. We cannot expect that Broja arrives and, if he has the possibility to play, he is going to score with every single touch. He needs time also to feel the competition and start to perform in the way that we expect that he can perform.”
However, there was a negative development on the injury front as well in relation to centre-back Benoit Badiashile, who has suffered a small setback in his return to the team. “It was a different muscle for Benoit, a different thing, but it was minor, small. He is training with Reece James, Carney Chukwuemeka and Trevoh Chalobah. They are very close also to start being involved training with the team,” he explained.
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