"It was difficult to look too far beyond the headline item from Enzo Maresca on Friday morning largely because it was to do with Cole Palmer and how the playmaker will miss Chelsea's next three matches. The club's medics and Palmer himself (reluctantly, you suspect) have decided that rest is the only cure for the groin issue that has held him back at various points this season."
"It will be Thomas Tuchel's fourth camp as the England manager and his third without Palmer because of injury. Which is not ideal in the countdown to the World Cup. The hope at Chelsea is that their main man will be revived by the time they go to Nottingham Forest on 18 October. And yet, once the Palmer news had been digested, it was actually easy to be assailed by all of the other stuff that is testing Maresca."
"The manager revealed he would be without Tosin Adarabioyo until after the international break because of a calf problem; the centre-half felt it in the wake of last Saturday's 2-1 loss at Manchester United, where he came on after the early dismissal of the goalkeeper Robert Sanchez. With that in mind, the last thing Maresca needed was for his back-up goalkeeper, Filip Jorgensen, to come for a third-minute high ball at Lincoln in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night"
Cole Palmer will miss Chelsea's next three home matches — Brighton, Benfica and Liverpool — because club medics and Palmer have decided rest is the only cure for a recurring groin issue. Palmer will likely miss England's friendly with Wales and the World Cup qualifier against Latvia. Tosin Adarabioyo will be absent until after the international break with a calf problem sustained after the Manchester United match. During the Carabao Cup tie at Lincoln, substitute goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen punched Wesley Fofana in the head while contesting a high ball; Fofana completed the match but later showed concussion symptoms and must follow concussion protocols.
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