Chelsea of England striker, Tammy Abraham will not be in action for the London-based club this weekend in the English Premier League, as he Nigerian-born star is reportedly down with injury.
Information out of Stamford Bridge indicates that Abraham and Thiago Silva will both miss out for The Blues, but Leeds midfielder, Jamie Shackleton is back in contention after missing the last three games due to a groin strain and is expected to be included in the squad.
Leeds also have Kalvin Phillips and Rodrigo available, after they came through unscathed after returning from injury in Monday night’s defeat at West Ham United, but Pascal Struijk (knock) and Pablo Hernandez (muscle strain) remain unavailable.
Abraham misses the trip to Elland Road on account of his ongoing struggle to shake off concern over his fitness for a number of weeks, as he continues battling with an ankle problems and he will not feature in Saturday’s game at Elland Road, while Silva is also out with a recurrence of his recent thigh injury.
Abraham has battled an ankle problem since hobbling out of Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Newcastle at Stamford Bridge on February 15, with Tuchel claiming the striker had been harbouring an ankle issue since playing against Burnley on January 31.
The 23-year-old has made five appearances since that initial problem, but failed to complete Chelsea training on Thursday and will miss Saturday’s Premier League trip to Leeds.
Consequently, Chelsea’s coach, Thomas Tuchel admitted he is worried about Tammy Abraham’s nagging ankle injury after the Chelsea forward suffered a fresh setback in training.
Tichel moaned: “Tammy still has ankle pain from the tackle against Newcastle, from the same injury. He’s still not 100 per cent comfortable. He went off, the day before he was fine, he had some training.
“Honestly I’m a bit concerned because it’s still the pain from the tackle against Burnley, so we’re talking about a long time now where he does not really feel 100 per cent free and comfortable; I can see it in training.
“Even if he finishes training, I see that it’s not 100 per cent, that he has trust or feels totally free. So yeah, I’m a bit concerned but at the same time I have 100 per cent trust in our medical department, those guys are fantastic and they take care of him now.
“Thiago also had a little setback in training. At the end of the training session, the day before, he felt at the very end something around the same area where he was injured. So we had to take him off and he’s back into a transition phase but not back in team training. So he will be out.”
