Chelsea’s team news has just been released, and there is one very notable absence from the Blues squad.
N’Golo Kante limped off in the first half against Leicester on Tuesday, and while Thomas Tuchel and all his staff played it down, it was clearly enough of a concern for them to know he wasn’t going to be used today.
With the Champions League final less than a week away, that’s worrying.
We’re confident he will start that game, but it will be two weeks since he completed 90 minutes by that time, and there’s always the worry he won’t be fully sharp and ready for the high intensity game Pep Guardiola’s Man City are going to try and unleash.
Perhaps it’s even a more serious injury than feared, and Tuchel is playing it down as a smokescreen.
Either way, it will be very interesting to see what goes on in training in the next few days.
