Chelsea set to miss six players in their Premier League clash with Bournemouth on December 27th.
The Bkues with host the Cherries at the Stamford Bridge a day after Boxing day in their first league game since the return of the EPL.
In preparation for his team's return to the Premier League on Tuesday against Bournemouth, Chelsea head coach Graham Potter has been speaking with the media at Cobham this afternoon.
Graham Potter has confirmed that N'Golo Kante's hamstring injury may keep him out until the beginning of March.
Kante has been out since August due to a serious injury he sustained against Tottenham. The France international has had surgery on the issue since then, but he is not likely to return.
Potter has confirmed that Chelsea will be without six players when they play Bournemouth on Tuesday night at Stamford Bridge. The game will be without Kante, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Wesley Fofana, Ben Chilwell, Mateo Kovacic, and Hakim Ziyech.
"We're still waiting on Hakim and Mateo," Potter said. "They went to third and fourth place [in the World Cup], played the game as well. It's a big demand for them, they wont' be available for the game as a consequence.
"Wesley just had a little setback which can sometimes happen at the very last stage of the rehab, so a couple of weeks, he won't be available for the game. Armando [Broja] is a big loss in terms of the time he is out.
"Reece [James] is back in. He's been training with us and completed 65 minutes in the week. Still without Ruben, still without Ben Chilwell, obviously Kante, Mendy has had a couple of days training with us."
"He's a while. He'll be end of February, or the start of March."
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