Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca confirmed Reece James is back and Romeo Lavia almost back for Crystal Palace but Wesley Fofana is out for a while
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00:00How are things looking on the injury front? Anyone returning for this game?
00:03Anyway, Rhys is back from already last game.
00:09Romeo is very close, he started to work with us.
00:14And then for the rest, not any update.
00:20Keenan is still out. Unfortunately, Wes will be out for a very long time
00:26and Benoit will be out at least until February.
00:33So the only two big update is on Wes Fofana and Benoit,
00:38that they both are going to be out for a very long time.
00:42Do they either require surgery?
00:46No at the moment, for sure no Benoit. Wes, no at the moment.
00:50Does that affect your thinking in terms of this transfer window?
00:54We'll see. Now the focus is on tomorrow's game.
00:58That is an important game, like the rest.
01:04So the focus is just about tomorrow, but for sure these two players,
01:08they're going to be out for a long time, so we'll see.
01:11And Rhys James, how close is he to getting some minutes again?
01:14No, he's back. The last game against Ipswich,
01:18he was with us just to be with us on the squad.
01:22The plan was not to give him any minutes.
01:25Tomorrow is different. We can give him minutes.
01:27So hopefully, we all know how important Rhys is for us.
01:32So hopefully he can get minutes very soon.