Chelsea’s Injury List Grows With Pulisic And Sterling Sidelined

With two further injuries sustained in Chelsea’s loss to Manchester City, Graham Potter is now down to 10 first-team players.

On Thursday night, Raheem Sterling and Christian Pulisic were both forced off due to injuries and joined a crowded physio room at Stamford Bridge.

Eight more players, in addition to the two wingers, are currently injured, leaving Potter, who is already under pressure, without many first-choice choices.

Sterling was taken off five minutes in after picking up an issue in his first involvement of the game.

Twenty-two minutes in and Pulisic, after contact on his knee following a cross-shot, was soon joining him.

For Potter, he has been left to bemoan torrid luck which is adding to his woes of not getting results.

‘Raheem, first action in the game. So it was a strange one, a backheel,’ Potter said after the 1-0 loss to Man City.

‘And then obviously Christian is full pelt and it’s a cross or a shot and it is contact with his knee.’

❌ N’Golo Kante
❌ Reece James
❌ Edouard Mendy
❌ Wesley Fofana
❌ Armando Broja
❌ Ben Chilwell
❌ Ruben Loftus-Cheek
❌ Mason Mount
❌ Raheem Sterling
❌ Christian Pulisic

We currently have 10 players injured 🤯 #CFC pic.twitter.com/0zHGdDp3AA

— CFC-Blues (@CFCBlues_com) January 5, 2023

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He added: ‘The expectation is where it is so you want to be here and have all your players available and have a fully fit squad and be able to compete.

‘You know the demands of our supporters, who I thought were fantastic today, really supportive and got behind the team in a great way but it is frustrating for everyone at the moment.’

Goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, defenders Reece James, Wesley Fofana and Ben Chilwell as well as N’Golo Kante, Mount, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Armando Broja are also currently out.