🚨 Kieran Gill: it will be weeks before Cole Palmers back – not days or months, so we are looking at November as the likeliest return for Palmer. Whether before or after the international break scheduled for that month depends on when his injury has healed.

❗️The diagnosis is that Cole Palmer has a strained groin, but it is not severe enough to require surgery, thankfully.

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Chelsea expect Cole Palmer to be sidelined until November following a club meeting about his groin injury.

Palmer, 23, is set to miss Chelsea’s return to action after the international break at Nottingham Forest on October 18, as well as the home game against Ajax in the Champions League, the visit of Sunderland in the Premier League and the trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup fourth round.

The England international aggravated the injury, which also ruled him out of two games in August, during Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Manchester United on September 20.

Club sources indicated he remains a number of weeks away from a return.

[Simon Johnson - The Athletic; first reported by Nizaar Kinsella - BBC Sport]

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Your Chelsea: 2025/26.

Jamie nets for the #YoungLions. 😎

Malo Gusto for France 🇫🇷:

- 5 recoveries
- 4/4 ground duels won
- 3/3 accurate long balls
- 100% tackles won
- 0x dribbled past
- 100% successful dribbles (2/2)
- 66 accurate passes (90%)
- 90 minutes played
- 7.8 rating

(sofascore_football)

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Great performance by Enzo Fernandez in Argentina’s victory over Venezuela:

◉ 1st in touches (123).
◉ 1st in completed passes (101).
◉ 1st in precise passes in the opponent’s half (61).
◉ 1st in passes in the final third (25).

(dataref_)

Enzo on playing deeper: “Today I got to play alongside Paredes and I feel very good in that position”. #CFC

(afaseleccion)