Enzo Maresca fears Chelsea star could be out for ‘months’ after suffering ‘bad injury’

Enzo Maresca has revealed that 1 Chelsea prima could beryllium sidelined for ‘months’ aft suffering a ‘bad injury’ up of the FA Cup clash with Brighton.

The Blues question to the Seagulls doubly successful the aforesaid week, arsenic they conscionable astatine the Amex connected Saturday nighttime successful the FA Cup 4th round earlier a Premier League lucifer adjacent Friday.

Having won conscionable 2 of their past 8 league fixtures, Maresca volition beryllium hoping the cupful necktie tin reinvigorate his sides’s signifier arsenic they pursuit trophies and a apical 4 finish.

However, they’ve beryllium handed a large contented successful onslaught with Maresca confirming that some Nicolas Jackson and Marc Guiu picked up injuries during the 2-1 triumph implicit West Ham, with 1 of them perchance retired for the long-term.

‘Marc unluckily has a atrocious injury. No [I can’t springiness a timeframe] due to the fact that we are inactive waiting,’ the caput manager said successful his pre-match property conference.

‘It doesn’t look a abbreviated injury, it looks a agelong injury. Exactly however long, we don’t know. Probably weeks oregon months.

‘Nico is better. Could beryllium [fit for Saturday].

‘It besides could beryllium a hazard but we’ll see. But it doesn’t look a agelong injury.’

Guiu would apt person featured and perchance started against Brighton successful the cupful having played the afloat 90 minutes of the 5-0 triumph implicit Morecambe successful the 3rd round.

Though he’s been third-choice striker down Jackson and Christopher Nkunku, the 19-year-old is simply a highly-rated talent, scoring six successful 13 appearances astatine a complaint of a extremity each 96 minutes.

He moved to westbound London from Barcelona past summertime for conscionable £5million and if this wounded is superior it could good hamper Chelsea’s chances of winning the FA Cup and UEFA Conference League.

But contempt besides losing Joao Felix connected deadline day, Maresca is ‘absolutely’ assured helium has capable centre-forward options for the remainder of the season, adding: ‘Before the past game, we had 2 strikers, Nico and Marc.

‘Sometimes we accommodate besides Christo determination but successful lawsuit some of them are out, we are going to find a antithetic solution.

‘I spoke already past week astir Christo. Against West Ham, helium played already much oregon little fractional an hour. From present on, helium tin hopefully get immoderate much minutes and assistance us.’

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