The hectic schedule of the Premier League season has not yet returned and already Chelsea have been with another injury blow in a 2022/23 that has seemed full of them. The Blues were cautious in their friendly against Aston Villa and did not even start Trevoh Chalobah after he was originally named in the starting XI due to an issue.
Fortunately, Chalobah is expected to be fine, but the Blues did not make their way through the game unscathed. Armando Broja was forced off after going down on 19 minutes and required a stretcher to leave the field.
The striker has since undergone a scan that has shown he has torn his anterior cruciate ligament and is set to be ruled out until at least the end of the season, in a bitter blow to Graham Potter's mid-season preparations.
