Chelsea suffer new Christopher Nkunku injury setback | SVTEM55 | 2024-02-27 16:08:01
Mauricio Pochettino has confirmed that Christopher Nkunku might miss as much as four weeks for Chelsea as a result of one other damage setback.
Chelsea's £52 million signing has made just 9 appearances in his first season at Stamford Bridge, mainly as a consequence of a knee damage which he suffered last summer which dominated him out of the primary four months of the marketing campaign.
Nkunku was brought on instead within the second half of Chelsea's Carabao Cup remaining on Sunday but was unable to make an impression as Virgil van Dijk gained the sport for Liverpool in additional time.
And Pochettino has revealed that Nkunku suffered an unspecified damage during Sunday's last at Wembley.
'We obtained yesterday [on Monday] that Nkunku was injured, we don't know when he acquired injured,' Pochettino stated.
'We need to see and consider each day but I feel, in the intervening time, perhaps three or four weeks out.
'Hope three or four weeks, no more.'
The damage will rule Nkunku out of Chelsea's FA Cup fifth-round tie towards Leeds United on Wednesday evening.
The France worldwide can also be set to miss Premier League video games towards Brentford, Newcastle United and Arsenal.
Pochettino also insists it's 'unfair' to guage Nkunku given how accidents have disrupted his debut campaign at Chelsea.
'It's troublesome for him,' stated the Chelsea manager.
'When he arrived in the pre-season, he was flying until he received the knee damage and now it's almost eight months and even when he was "prepared" to be concerned again, he was by no means the same participant as earlier than.
'We've in our head, the potential, greatest Nkunku that everyone is aware of from Germany, from the Bundesliga, but it isn't the identical player when after he needs to be an influence participant within the last due to totally different circumstances.
'In fact, for the group it's not an excellent factor for us because we will't provide to the workforce a participant who can carry out and rating objectives and could be necessary in this kind of recreation.'
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