Chelsea suffer new Christopher Nkunku injury setback | 9YP0K4D | 2024-02-29 16:08:01
Mauricio Pochettino has confirmed that Christopher Nkunku might miss as much as four weeks for Chelsea as a result of another damage setback.
Chelsea's £52 million signing has made just 9 appearances in his first season at Stamford Bridge, mainly resulting from a knee damage which he suffered last summer which dominated him out of the first four months of the campaign.
Nkunku was introduced on in its place within the second half of Chelsea's Carabao Cup final on Sunday however was unable to make an impression as Virgil van Dijk won the game for Liverpool in extra time.
And Pochettino has revealed that Nkunku suffered an unspecified damage during Sunday's last at Wembley.
'We acquired yesterday [on Monday] that Nkunku was injured, we don't know when he obtained injured,' Pochettino stated.
'We have to see and consider every single day but I feel, in the intervening time, perhaps three or 4 weeks out.
'Hope three or four weeks, no more.'
The damage will rule Nkunku out of Chelsea's FA Cup fifth-round tie against Leeds United on Wednesday evening.
The France international can also be set to overlook Premier League games towards Brentford, Newcastle United and Arsenal.
Pochettino additionally insists it's 'unfair' to guage Nkunku given how accidents have disrupted his debut campaign at Chelsea.
'It's troublesome for him,' stated the Chelsea supervisor.
'When he arrived within the pre-season, he was flying till he obtained the knee damage and now it's almost eight months and even when he was "prepared" to be involved once more, he was never the same player as earlier than.
'We now have in our head, the potential, greatest Nkunku that everybody is aware of from Germany, from the Bundesliga, however it isn't the identical player when after he needs to be an influence player in the remaining due to totally different circumstances.
'In fact, for the staff it's not an excellent factor for us because we will't present to the group a player who can perform and score objectives and may be necessary in one of these recreation.'
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