Enzo Maresca ahead of Brentford [H] in the Premier League:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬:

“Wes had a muscle problem a few days and we are waiting for more checks.

“For Sunday, Romeo is out. If you compare Romeo’s games this season to last season, he has already improved. But the target with Romeo is just to try to keep him fit as much as we can and play more games next season than this season.

“We are trying to do the same with Reece [James], it’s not the same but a similar situation. Reece [against Tottenham was on the bench, he is one of our best players, but he was on the bench because he try to take care of him.

“We know that in this moment he can’t play every three days, hopefully soon he can, but the main target with him, Romeo and Wes is to keep them fit because we know how important they are for us.”

🐝 𝐎𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞:

“For sure it will be very tough. You see on Wednesday night they lost Newcastle away, but it was a tough game. But I think from now on, every game they’re going to be tough.”

“It’s difficult. We are probably the only team.
Tottenham, I don’t know if they play Sunday or I don’t know when they play. So for us it will be more difficult. But now it’s also a matter of how we manage the tightness. We need to recover energy and we need to go again on Sunday.

“It’s much better to win and to prepare for the next game. Every time you win the next game, most of the time it’s better preparation. Hopefully from this game we can build momentum, knowing that every game will be difficult until the end.”

(Via ChelseaFC & Bobby Vincent - Football London)

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Cole Palmer’s stats against @Tottenhm last night.

Premier League 2 report: Chelsea 4-1 Aston Villa

Four different goalscorers, with two goals in each half, secured Chelsea Under-21s’ third consecutive win, as we wrapped up our final Premier League 2 home fixture of the season against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge on Friday night. 👏

🔵 Chelsea’s lineup (4-2-3-1):

Lucas Bergstrom (Luke Campbell 81); Brodi Hughes, Harrison Murray-Campbell (Kaiden Wilson 74), Landon Emenalo, Ishe Samuels-Smith (Ronnie Stutter h-t); Harrison McMahon (C), Samuel Rak-Sakyi; Genesis Antwi, Kiano Dyer, Donnell McNeilly (Ryan Kavuma-McQueen 82); Shumaira Mheuka (Chizaram Ezenwata 80)

G/A from:

ishe samuelssmith ⚽️ [1’]
genesis antwi 🅰️👏
shim mheuka ⚽️ [10’]
donnell m9 ⚽️ [65’]
landonemenalo 🅰️
Brodihughes1 ⚽️ [70’]

[@chelseafc]

#CFC #Chelsea #ChelseaFC

JT on IG 🤣💙

Chelsea are in talks with UEFA over a financial settlement after breaching the European governing body’s spending limits.

UEFA will not include the income Chelsea generated from selling its women’s team to a sister company — Blueco 22 Midco Ltd — for £200million in their assessment calculations.

Unlike the Premier League, UEFA does not allow for the sale of tangible assets to sister companies to count towards their Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

This means the two hotels — the Copthorne and Millennium — Chelsea sold to Blueco 22 Properties Ltd, another sister company, for £76.5m in 2022-23, and the women’s team sale in 2023-24, will not be recorded by UEFA.

For 2023-24, UEFA assessed the last two seasons, allowing clubs a maximum loss of €80m. Deducting the asset sales from Chelsea’s calculation leaves them with a £237m loss over that two-year period, albeit that figure will reduce when allowable costs are deducted.

The most likely outcome from Chelsea’s dialogue with UEFA is that they will be required to pay a financial penalty.

An official announcement is expected in the coming months.

[The Athletic - first reported by Martyn Ziegler - The Times]

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Chelsea defender Wesley Fofana is set to miss the rest of the season due to injury.

[Matt Law - The Telegraph]

Official statement from Chelsea FC:

“The club can confirm that defender Wesley Fofana has today undergone successful hamstring surgery.

“Wesley was assessed by specialists this week after the 24-year-old suffered an injury of the muscle. Following that assessment, it was concluded that an operation would be required.

“The 24-year-old will now begin his recovery and undergo rehabilitation with the club’s medical staff at Cobham over the coming weeks.

“Everyone at the club is fully focused on supporting Wesley in his recovery.”

IT’S MATCHDAY! 🔵

🆚 Brentford
🏆 Premier League
🕐 14:00 KO
🏟️ Gtech Community Stadium

Leave your score predictions in the comments!👇

Our 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 lineup for today’s match against Brentford [A] in the Premier League.

✍️ by elvinba

🤕 Known doubts & absentees:

— Mykhailo Mudryk is provisionally suspended from football after a positive doping test.

— Marc Guiu remains out due to a leg injury.

— Aaron Anselmino remains injured.

— Romeo Lavia has suffered an injury problem and is currently being assessed.

— Wesley Fofana has undergone surgery on his hamstring and will miss the remainder of the season.

Feel free to leave your thoughts! 🔵⬇️

#CFC #Chelsea #ChelseaFC #BRECHE

Presenting your Chelsea XI. 🥁

#CFC | #BRECHE

Enzo Maresca on the changes to the #Chelsea line-up:

"The ones that are going to start I think, are going to be the right ones. Also because we have a few back from injury [recently]. Playing after 72 hours isn't the best after you've come back from a long time or an injury."

[via ChelseaFC]

Enzo Maresca:

"It's nice to win games, especially when it's a derby like Thursday, but that's gone and finished. Now we have the games ahead of us and hopefully we can win today as well."

[via ChelseaFC]

HT: Brentford 0-0 #Chelsea

Thoughts, Blues? 🔵

FT: Brentford 0-0 Chelsea

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, James (C) (Cucurella 76’), Tosin, Chalobah, Gusto, Caicedo, Dewsbury-Hall (Palmer 58’), Madueke (Neto 58’), Fernandez, Sancho, Nkunku (Jackson 45’)

Bench: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Badiashile, Colwill, Cucurella, Palmer, Neto, George, Jackson

Unused substitutes: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Badiashile, Colwill, George

🟨 Yellow cards: Gusto (25’), Tosin (44’), Fernandez (86’)

Brentford XI: Flekken, Ajer, van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard, Schade, Mbuemo, Wissa

Bench: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Mee, Konak, Janelt, Maghoma, Kayode

Thoughts on the game? ⬇️

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