{"id":312161,"date":"2025-12-12T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:05:08","slug":"maresca-provides-latest-on-palmer-fofana-and-delap-news-official-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312161\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresca provides latest on Palmer, Fofana and Delap | News | Official Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-article-page__summary\">&#13;<br \/>\n                Enzo Maresca has said Cole Palmer and Wesley Fofana should be available for tomorrow&#8217;s Premier League clash with Everton.&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea head into tomorrow&#8217;s game at Stamford Bridge in fifth position in the Premier League, one point and two places above Everton.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues will once again be without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/moises-caicedo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moises Caicedo<\/a>, as he serves the third and final game of his domestic ban, having featured in Europe on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/levi-colwill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Levi Colwill<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/romeo-lavia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romeo Lavia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/dario-essugo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dario Essugo<\/a> remain sidelined and they were joined on the injury list by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/liam-delap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Delap<\/a> last weekend following his shoulder injury against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s pre-match press conference, Maresca was also asked about the availability of Palmer after he was left at home for our mid-week trip to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Cole is ok, he is better and he is available at the moment. We have one more session this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yesterday he finished the session with us with a mixed feeling but overall he is ok.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fofana came on as a substitute at half-time of our Champions League defeat to Atalanta but was then later forced off with an eye injury he suffered during a slide tackle.<\/p>\n<p>But Maresca confirmed: &#8216;He is available, he is fine. He took part in the session yesterday and is completely fine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Maresca was also asked how long Delap would be out for, replying: &#8216;We don&#8217;t know yet. It could be two, three, four weeks. We don&#8217;t know exactly how many days he will need.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Enzo Maresca has said Cole Palmer and Wesley Fofana should be available for tomorrow&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-312161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}