Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel (AP)
16 English top-flight games have been postponed this month due to COVID-19 and injuries.
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Manager Thomas Tuchel said Chelsea are not out of the woods yet with multiple COVID-19 cases and the squad being reduced ahead of their Premier League home game against Brighton & Hove Albion.
Tuchel was forced to give some players more minutes than they should have against Aston Villa on Sunday after both Romelu Lukaku and Callum Hudson-Odoi missed their last three matches due to COVID-19 came back.
Midfielders Jorginho and N’Golo Kante have suffered injury problems, while Mateo Kovacic recently recovered from COVID-19.
Kante came out in the 63rd minute of the Villa clash due to a knee injury sustained during their Champions League clash against Juventus in November.
The German told the club’s website that he would speak to the club’s doctors and physio to find a solution to the Brighton game, with injured midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek also suffering from COVID-19.
“If you talk about central midfield, let’s say N’Golo is out (against Brighton), maybe Ruben is out, so a positive test is enough for this thing to collapse because then Kovacic is 90 The minutes will play out again… and you risk injury,” Tuchel said.
“That’s what we’re doing at the moment. I can’t see how we’re out of the COVID threat at the moment because it doesn’t feel like it.”
16 English top-flight games have been postponed this month due to COVID-19 and injuries, the latest being Everton’s home game against Newcastle United on Thursday.
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