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Chelsea<\/a> are able to welcome back both Estevao<\/a> and Liam Delap<\/a> for the visit of Aston Villa<\/a> on December 27.<\/p>\n Delap has been out with a shoulder injury<\/a> which he sustained in the 0-0<\/a> draw at Bournemouth earlier in December, while fellow summer recruit Estevao has been out with a \u201csmall muscular problem\u201d <\/a>that saw him miss the 3-1<\/a> win at Cardiff last week.<\/p>\n Enzo Maresca previously suggested the pair were in contention to face Aston Villa after Christmas, and has now confirmed the good news.<\/p>\n \u201c[Estevao] is back. He is available for Saturday,\u201d Maresca told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd also Liam Delap, he is available for Saturday.” <\/p>\n There is still no sign of a return for Romeo Lavia, Dario Essugo<\/a> and Levi Colwill<\/a>, who are longer-term absentees. <\/p>\n Chelsea face a daunting task of stopping Villa, who have won 10 games in a row across all competitions.<\/p>\n After a troublesome start, Villa are now firmly in the Premier League title race having built up a seven-point gap over fourth-placed Chelsea.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are doing fantastic,\u201d Maresca said on Villa. \u201cThey are doing fantastic this season, last season, years ago with Unai [Emery]. They are doing a fantastic job.<\/p>\n \u201cAs you said, at this moment they have won 10 games in a row. Hopefully we can win the game on Saturday.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea are able to welcome back both Estevao and Liam Delap for the visit of Aston Villa on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,1348,3355,596,3359,3353,44,3356,3354,3357,85,3358,1346],"class_list":{"0":"post-368764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-daily-news","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-inkl","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-app","17":"tag-news-headlines","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-today-news","21":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}