Graham Potter has confirmed N’Golo Kante and Edouard Mendy are nonetheless unavailable for Chelsea, whereas two different gamers are anticipated to overlook this weekend’s journey to Crystal Palace by means of sickness.
World Cup winner and influential midfielder Kante has featured in simply two of Chelsea’s eight matches this season.
The 31-year-old returned to coaching through the worldwide break however gained’t characteristic at Selhurst Park on Saturday as he continues to work his manner again to full health.
First-choice goalkeeper Mendy can also be sidelined for the Blues, having missed Chelsea’s final two video games by means of damage.
Chelsea summer time signings Marc Cucurella and Carney Chukwuemeka are additionally set to overlook the membership’s first Premier League recreation in nearly a month by means of sickness.
Requested for an replace on his squad on Friday, new Chelsea boss Potter mentioned: ‘N’Golo is doing fantastic when it comes to coming by means of the rehab phases. He has been on the grass with the group however he’s not in full coaching.
‘We've got a little bit of sickness with Marc Cucurella and in addition Carney Chukwuemeka. Aside from that everybody is match.’
The final time Chelsea performed a Premier League match – towards West Ham on September 3 – Thomas Tuchel was within the Stamford Bridge hot-seat.
However Tuchel misplaced his job simply days later and Chelsea rapidly appointed former Brighton boss Potter as their new supervisor.
Requested concerning the adjustments at Chelsea, Potter added: ‘Change is nice and it’s unhealthy. It’s difficult. It’s the way you cope with it and work with it.
‘It’s effectively documented what’s occurred when it comes to possession, the coach, completely different individuals. It’s life and the way you handle it.
‘It’s greater than a brief time period problem, the way you align the assets you've gotten, soccer concept to make it profitable.
‘The previous, assets, historical past doesn’t assure something on this league. There’s plenty of golf equipment that spend some huge cash and don’t obtain what they wish to.
‘The technique must be clear. Life or loss of life is a bit dramatic, it's what it's. I can’t management individuals’s notion. I deal with the subsequent match, coaching session and how one can enhance the group.’
Chelsea are seventh within the Premier League forward of Saturday’s journey to Crystal Palace, who're sixteenth with one win from six.
Potter insists he's ‘not within the enterprise of evaluating myself’ to his predecessor Tuchel, who guided Chelsea to Champions League glory in 2021.
He mentioned: ‘All people has bought barely completely different concept on soccer. Don’t get too wound up about that.
‘It's extra a alternative all of us make and now we have to make these decisions work. I've enormous respect for Thomas and his groups. I’m not within the enterprise of evaluating myself to him or anybody else.’
Chelsea drew 1-1 with Pink Bull Salzburg in Potter’s first recreation in cost and return to Champions League motion towards AC Milan after their journey to Crystal Palace.
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