Chelsea star Cole Palmer has suffered a broken toe from stubbing it on a door on Wednesday night, ruling him out of key fixtures against Burnley, Barcelona and Arsenal.<\/p>\n
The Blues have been without Palmer since he played 21 minutes of Chelsea<\/a>\u2018s 2-1 defeat to Manchester United towards the end of September.<\/p>\n Palmer was due back in training this week after two months out with a groin injury but the England international has now had setback by picking up a separate injury.<\/p>\n Maresca said in his pre-match press conference on Friday:\u00a0\u201cHe was very close. He was back with us almost with the groin, which is very good news, but he has this small problem.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked how long Palmer could be out for, Maresca replied:\u00a0\u201cHe is probably not available for Saturday for sure, Barcelona for sure or Arsenal for sure.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, he had an accident at home where he hit his toe. It is nothing important, but he won\u2019t be back in the next week.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Premier League player power rankings: Haaland the best in the business, but where\u2019s Salah?<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI wake up many times during the night \u2013 I hit my head, my legs, my everything \u2013 so it can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n On Chelsea coping without Palmer, Maresca added:\u00a0\u201cI think that his team-mates are better players with Cole playing. I feel much better when Cole is on the pitch, and we all want Cole on the pitch.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the same time, when Cole is not on the pitch, we need to find a solution. The team is doing very well but we are better with Cole. He was almost back with us.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked about other injury issues, Maresca continued: \u201cMoi [Caicedo] came back last night, I will see him soon. He is good. Benoit [Badiashile] can be available for tomorrow. Enzo [Fernandez] and Pedro [Neto] used the break to recover their energy and their injuries. They are both available for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE ON CHELSEA ON F365\u2026 Chelsea defender Malo Gusto has been in good form for the Blues of late and produced a Player of the Match performance as France beat Azerbaijan 3-1 during the international break.<\/p>\n Maresca said of Gusto: \u201cWe said many times that Malo is a main player in the way we want to play. He can play in different positions. We like players that we can be dynamic with. Malo, personally, I consider him a main player for us.\u201d<\/p>\n After facing Wolves in their last match before the international break, Maresca has explained why a match against Burnley will be different, the Chelsea boss insisted: \u201cIt will be a different game. Tomorrow, we need to use different strategy and weapons. It will be a tough game after the international break, 12:30, away, it\u2019s always a difficult game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea star Cole Palmer has suffered a broken toe from stubbing it on a door on Wednesday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6898,33182,42,1100,43,1102,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-152113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-chelsea","tag-cole-palmer","tag-headlines","tag-home-page","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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