Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca on the suspensions and injuries his side have ahead of their huge Premier League clash with Liverpool
Cobham, London, UK
Cobham, London, UK
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00:00What team news have you got for us? Any players returning? Any fresh injury worries after the international break?
00:07No, finally we are all available, so we have all the squad available, unless the suspended one.
00:14What was in your thinking there, because you have to make two enforced changes in a back four?
00:20Yeah, it's not a problem. I said since we started that I'm very happy with the squad,
00:27I'm very happy with the players that we are using. Since we started we tried to share a little bit of minutes
00:36between all the competition we have. So we have two suspended players that they are not able to play
00:44and we're going to find different players that they can play.
00:48Will Rhys James be in the squad for Sunday?
00:51He's available, finally he's back. He worked with us all the international break and it's good news
00:59especially for him because being injured is not a good feeling, so finally he's back.
01:05It's been so difficult for him, for any athlete to continually come back and get injured again.
01:12What have you done different as a medical team, as a club this time?
01:16Do you feel that this is difficult? Is it difficult to know that and predict that?
01:21No, it's always complicated when you get injury, injury, injury again.
01:28It's not easy, so you are always looking for a solution.
01:32Probably the solution with Rhys is the same solution we are using with Romeo and Wes
01:43in terms of using them just once a week, one game, because probably in this moment for different reasons
01:51Rhys' body cannot play, for instance, twice a week.
02:00So probably one of the solutions is that we are going to try to manage him
02:06in the same way we are doing with Wes and Romeo.