If Graham Potter steers Chelsea back into the top four, it will be some feat given the carnage inflicted on his squad by injuries.
After five games without a win before the World Cup, culminating in defeat at Newcastle, Chelsea bounced back with a festive three points at Bournemouth last week. But it came at a cost, with Reece James suffering a recurrence of the knee injury which had ruled him out of Qatar.
And although the England right-back joins a crowded treatment room, Potter knows the wealthy west Londoners will get zero sympathy. The former Brighton boss, who takes his side to Nottingham Forest on Sunday, said: “If you go back to the Newcastle game, we had no Kepa [Arrizabalaga], no Reece, no Wesley [Fofana] and no Ben Chilwell.
