Chelsea defender Wesley Fofana has been handed a contemporary harm scare lower than per week out from the Premier League’s return.
Kai Havertz netted a hat-trick as Chelsea beat Brentford 5-1 in a behind-closed-doors pleasant on Tuesday, however the feat was overshadowed by Fofana limping off with a knee drawback.
The Blues will rapidly assess the centre-half and discover out the severity of the harm on Wednesday.
Wesley Fofana limped off with a knee drawback throughout a warm-up pleasant in opposition to Brentford
Kai Havertz scored a hat-trick as Chelsea beat the Bees 5-1 within the behind-closed-doors pleasant
Fofana, who joined Chelsea for £70million from Leicester in the summertime, has not performed since damaging his knee in opposition to AC Milan in October.
As a dozen of his team-mates travelled to Qatar for the World Cup, the defender stayed behind to rehabilitate and construct up health forward of the Premier League’s restart on December 26.
Chelsea had been handed a serious harm blow earlier this month in a mid-World Cup pleasant in opposition to Aston Villa, as Armando Broja tore his anterior cruciate ligament and was thus dominated out for the rest of the season.
Reece James performed for an hour because the match was cut up into three separate 45-minute intervals
In additional constructive information, Reece James, who missed England’s World Cup marketing campaign due to a knee harm, featured for an hour within the warm-up match in opposition to Brentford, which was unconventionally performed over three 45-minute intervals.
Havertz, who scored twice off the bench in Germany’s closing match on the World Cup, saved up his purple patch in entrance of purpose with a well-taken hat-trick so as to add stress on to misfiring first-choice striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Chelsea’s first Premier League match after the restart comes in opposition to Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge on December 27.
