When we saw Ben Chilwell go down injured against Juventus, we feared the worst.
The updates we got initially from Thomas Tuchel didn’t do much to change our minds either. It looked and sounded like a bad knee injury, one that would certainly end his season and perhaps affect the start of next campaign too.
Instead, after a week we got an update that Chelsea would see if he could recover without surgery.
Kante and Chalobah returned to training today, having been in yesterday doing physical work when most of the squad were off.
Chilwell has also stepped up his recovery and done some light fitness work on grass. This is ahead of a targeted return in early to mid-January. #CFC
— Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) December 14, 2021
Since then things have been very quiet, and we’ve just been keeping our fingers crossed. Then today Nizaar Kinsella of Goal.com suddenly reported that Chilwell is back out on the training pitches running.
That’s huge news for us really, and the idea that he could be back as soon as January is just huge. Compared to the fears of 9 or more months out, this is a huge coup, even if he ends up not playing until February.
