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Chelsea boss Graham Potter has given an update on his squad ahead of the Champions League final group stage game against Dinamo Zagreb.
Reece James, N’Golo Kante and Wesley Fofana remain the long-term absentees.
Kepa got injured in the defeat to Brighton, Mateo Kovacic has also been nursing a calf injury all the while, and Kalidou Koulibaly is set for a return to action.
“Kepa won’t be available for the game,” said Potter of the goalkeeper.
“He has a slight issue with his plantar fascia [a part of your foot that connects your heelbone to your toes].
“We’re looking at days, but certainly not for the game tomorrow.”
On Koulibaly, the Blues boss said: “He trained today and was fine.
“Providing there’s no reaction he’s available and will be in the squad tomorrow.”
On Kovacic, Potter said: “Kovacic was just precautionary with his calf.
“He’s got a chance for the game tomorrow, we will make a decision later on.”
Robbie Fowler please, keep your high praises for Graham Potter ‘the match fixer’ to yourself ok. We all saw how he sold Man U and Brighton matches. Benching quality players, playing players out of position, setting up Chelsea to lose matches by making foolish, idiotic, irresponsible, stupid and embarrassing positioning which are all attributes of failure, sabotage, insincerity, wickedness, ignorance, lack of tactical acumen and irresponsibility. Graham Potter ‘the Match Seller’ committed all of these in the matches with Man U & Brighton. Can you tell us why he started with five defenders against Man U & Brighton? How can a responsible manager bench Chillwell for Pulisic at left wing back and also bench Azplicueta for Sterling at right wing back, bench Aubamayang, Broja & Jorginho and leave Kai Harvetz alone up front to do magic during the Brighton match and you are praising him for his knowledge and expertize on football.
It is unfortunate that Todd Boehly made the worst mistake of engaging an English Manager to manage Chelsea. The bitter truth is that No major European Club engages English manager because of their poor man management, tactical deficiencies, nepotic disposition, arrogant, idiotic foolish pride & focus on false English media hype. The media hype that made Man City to waste £100m on Jack Grealish same way they are hyping Declan Rice trying all gimmicks to make Chelsea to waste their money on an average player who is not worth up to £40m.
Let Rio Ferdinand & Robbie Fowler tell us one English Manager that has won a major trophy in Europe for over 15 years. We saw Gary Neville at Valencia. They are never ready to accept their mistakes so they cannot learn from their mistakes.
Imagine Graham Potter ‘the match fixer’ telling the whole world that Chelsea needed to experience the pain of losing to Brighton to learn from that instead of apologizing for his poor handling of Chelsea. The owners will buy quality players but the manager insists on playing English players whether on form or off form.
How can Chelsea – UEFA Champions league, Super Cup and Club World Cup wimners with all the quality players be learning from Brighton?
GRAHAM POTTER ‘THE MATCH FIXER’ HAVE A LOT TO EXPLAIN ABOUT MAN U & BRIGHTON MATCHES. HE IS LUCKY THAT THE DUKE OF WORLD CLUB FOOTBALL, SIR ROMAN ABRAHAMOVIC IS NOT IN CHARGE AT CHELSEA, BY NOW, GRAHAM POTTER ‘THE MATCH FIXER’ WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT IF JOB.
With all the hyping of Jack Grealish, Declan Rice, Harry Kane, John Stones, Kyllie Walker, England couldn’t win Euro 2020, 2018 world cup. Bulgaria got one world class player Hristo Stoichkov and the whole world saw him at U.S.A. 1994. At 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 world cup tournaments the world saw classy special players and they were not media hype made players.
We are going to 2022 world cup, let’s see how Jack Grealish, Declan Rice, Harry Kane, John Stones, Sterling & Pick for will win the world cup in Qatar. Maybe they will claim that injury to Reece James stopped England.
England should look for quality manager to handle their national team and not sentimental media hypes. It will never work.
Robbie Fowler please, keep your high praises for Graham Potter ‘the match fixer’ to yourself ok. We all saw how he sold Man U and Brighton matches. Benching quality players, playing players out of position, setting up Chelsea to lose matches by making foolish, idiotic, irresponsible, stupid and embarrassing positioning which are all attributes of failure, sabotage, insincerity, wickedness, ignorance, lack of tactical acumen and irresponsibility. Graham Potter ‘the Match Seller’ committed all of these in the matches with Man U & Brighton. Can you tell us why he started with five defenders against Man U & Brighton? How can a responsible manager bench Chillwell for Pulisic at left wing back and also bench Azplicueta for Sterling at right wing back, bench Aubamayang, Broja & Jorginho and leave Kai Harvetz alone up front to do magic during the Brighton match and you are praising him for his knowledge and expertize on football.
It is unfortunate that Todd Boehly made the worst mistake of engaging an English Manager to manage Chelsea. The bitter truth is that No major European Club engages English manager because of their noticeable poor man management (we saw Frank Lampard at Chelsea – the same players Frank Lampard messed up, divided into three camps, were the same players that won UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup when a better manager handled them), tactical deficiencies, nepotic disposition, arrogant, idiotic foolish pride & focus on false English media hype. The media hype that made Man City to waste £100m on Jack Grealish same way they are hyping Declan Rice trying all gimmicks to make Chelsea to waste their money on an average player who is not worth up to £40m.
Let Rio Ferdinand & Robbie Fowler tell us one English Manager that has won a major trophy in Europe for over 15 years. We saw Gary Neville at Valencia. They are never ready to accept their mistakes so they cannot learn from their mistakes.
Imagine Graham Potter ‘the match fixer’ telling the whole world that Chelsea needed to experience the pain of losing to Brighton to learn from that instead of apologizing for his poor handling of Chelsea. The owners will buy quality players but the manager insists on playing English players whether on form or off form.
How can Chelsea – UEFA Champions league, Super Cup and Club World Cup winners with all the quality players be learning from Brighton? Learning how to be average Club? God forbid.
GRAHAM POTTER ‘THE MATCH FIXER’ HAVE A LOT TO EXPLAIN ABOUT MAN U & BRIGHTON MATCHES. HE IS LUCKY THAT THE DUKE OF WORLD CLUB FOOTBALL, SIR ROMAN ABRAHAMOVIC IS NOT IN CHARGE AT CHELSEA, BY NOW, GRAHAM POTTER ‘THE MATCH FIXER’ WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT IF JOB.
With all the hyping of Jack Grealish, Declan Rice, Harry Kane, John Stones, Kyllie Walker, England couldn’t win Euro 2020, 2018 world cup.
Bulgaria got one world class player Hristo Stoichkov and the whole world saw him at U.S.A. 1994. At 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 world cup tournaments the world saw classy special players and they were not media hype made players.
We are going to watch 2022 FIFA world cup, let’s see how Jack Grealish, Declan Rice, Harry Kane, John Stones, Sterling & Pickford will win the world cup in Qatar. Maybe they will claim that injury to Reece James stopped England.
England should look for quality manager to handle their national team and not sentimental media hypes. It will never work.