Thomas Tuchel gives latest Chelsea injury update on six stars including Christensen and Havertz
Thomas Tuchel has confirmed that Chelsea still has many doubts and injury concerns heading into their penultimate match of the Premier League season against Leicester City. Timo Werner has been ruled out of the Stamford Bridge clash with a hamstring injury which he appeared to pick up, warming up for the FA Cup final, while question marks remain over Mateo Kovacic, Andreas Christensen and Kai Havertz.
The Denmark international was a surprise omission from Chelsea's squad at Wembley, with it emerging Christensen pulled out of the squad. The Blues boss admitted that is a situation that has occurred multiple times in recent weeks but would not divulge the content of his conversations with the out of contract star.
As such, Christensen may already have played his last match for the club.
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Tuchel said: Not sure yet if he's involved tomorrow or on the weekend. Andreas came on the morning of the match to speak to me and tell me he is not ready to play the match, and to not start the match or be on the bench. He had his reasons, they stay private and confidential. It was not the first time as you can see over the last weeks as you can see we had some of the situations, that's why he did not play so regularly. We thought we were in a good progression and good development because he played very strong in the match before the final against Leeds. The conversation took place, we had to respect it and of course respect. He still has our support but for tomorrow I'm not sure. [For the weekend] probably unlikely, it was on very short notice before the cup final and not only before this match. No chance I have any prediction."
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