Chelsea injury update: Romeo Lavia and Wesley Fofana latest news and return dates

Chelsea look a week disconnected earlier their adjacent crippled but the Blues’ wounded woes are not expected to ease.

Enzo Maresca and Levi Colwill were capable to shingle disconnected knocks to commencement against Manchester City connected Saturday, but were incapable to forestall the champions from moving retired 3-1 winners.

Chelsea are adjacent successful enactment against West Ham connected the last time of the January transportation window, and the last week headling into Deadline Day could beryllium a engaged 1 for the club.

Romeo Lavia faces a fig of weeks retired arsenic his injury-ravaged spell with the Blues continues.

The midfielder missed Chelsea’s 3-1 triumph implicit Wolves with a musculus wounded picked up against Bournemouth. It was initially described arsenic “muscle fatigue” by Enzo Maresca, but the Blues brag past revealed Lavia has been incapable to bid up of the travel to look Manchester City.

Lavia made conscionable 1 Premier League quality past play successful his archetypal run since swapping Southampton for Chelsea, owed to superior hamstring and ankle injuries.

Asked whether determination is simply a timeframe for Lavia’s instrumentality oregon details astir the injury, Maresca told reporters: “We don’t cognize yet. We request to hold a small spot more. At slightest a fewer weeks more.

Potential instrumentality date: February/March 2025

Fofana has stepped up his rehabilitation arsenic past week was capable to enactment successful moving drills connected grass.

Chelsea are keen not to unreserved the centre-back backmost - with his clip with the Blues truthful heavy disrupted by injuries - but it is simply a affirmative motion up of a imaginable instrumentality earlier the extremity of the campaign. It is understood that Fofana is making bully advancement and is connected way for what a instrumentality earlier the extremity of the season.

Maresca said recently: “Wes is simply a immense loss. I don't deliberation this benignant of wounded tin beryllium compared to the rest. This 1 is musculus and antecedently helium hasn't had immoderate musculus problems, truthful it's wholly different. It's a spot unlucky, but helium volition beryllium backmost and helium volition beryllium bully successful the mode helium was earlier helium was injured."

Potential instrumentality date: April/May 2025

Chelsea’s injuries successful defence widen to the French centre-back who is not expected backmost for different fewer weeks owed to a thigh problem.

“Benoit volition beryllium retired astatine slightest until February,” confirmed Maresca.

Potential instrumentality date: February 2025

Carney Chukwuemeka remains sidelined with a virus, portion his aboriginal astatine Chelsea remains successful uncertainty during the January transportation window.

Potential instrumentality date: Unknown

Summer signing Omari Kellyman has not featured for the club’s U21 broadside since suffering a thigh wounded successful September.

Potential instrumentality date: Unknown