Chelsea Team News' Leaks' Leaks' in front of Southampton Clash when Maresca gets a massive thrust | Football | sport

The Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca will include Wesley Fofana this evening (Tuesday) in his Matchday squad.

There were fears that the French defender would miss the rest of the season after a thigh injury in December. But he returned months before the schedule for training and is now ready to step back on competitive measures.

According to RMC Sport, Fofana is named in the squad for visiting Southampton in the Stamford Bridge.

It is unclear whether he will start the game so soon after relaxation, but the blues were both illuminated with Benoit Badishile and Trevoh Chalobah on the back.

Fofana has suffered a number of injury problems in 2022 since the completion of Leicester City.

The central defender has only made 27 Premier League appearances in almost three years, and he missed the entire 2023/24 campaign.

There were contradictory reports on Fofana's recovery period after he was dropped against Aston Villa on December 1st. Shortly after the new year, Maresca said publicly that he was in danger of missing the rest of the season.

By screenshots that circulated on social media in 4-6 weeks. “

Now that his comeback has come firmly on the cards, the player's prediction was not far away, and Maresca welcomes him back three months earlier than expected. But as injury problems in defense, they remain a problem at the top of the field.

The strikers Nicolas Jackson and Marc Guiu are still excluded alongside the injured winger Noni Madueke and the suspended Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Maresca experimented with Pedro Neto in the defeat against Aston Villa through the middle, and the manager has suggested that after setting up Enzo Fernandez, he will receive another crack for the only goal of the blues.

“[He] Could be a good option ” [Villa] Play and we saw that he could do that. It was positive. The performance in general was positive. “

In a run of three defeats in four Premier League games, Chelsea slipped from the Champions League places. Maresca will definitely step down in the last 12 games of the campaign.