Maresca delivers update on Colwill and Madueke fitness | News | Official Site

Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca would not consider there’s motive for concern over the health of Levi Colwill and Noni Madueke after each have been withdrawn in our 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest.

Our England internationals, because of be a part of up with their nation within the coming days for fixtures in opposition to Greece and Finland, began this afternoon’s conflict at Stamford Bridge however did not full 90 minutes.

Madueke hobbled off late within the contest and Colwill adopted quickly after having performed a lot of the second half in discomfort.

Maresca was requested in his post-match press convention in regards to the health of the pair and he replied: ‘I feel they’re each okay once they went inside [to the changing room]. We are going to see however I do not assume there’s any downside there.’

At the moment’s draw was hard-fought. Chris Wooden put the guests forward shortly after half time however Madueke responded for the Blues earlier than the hour mark with a wonderful shot into the far nook from 15 yards.

Our equaliser coupled with a 78th-minute pink card proven to James Ward-Prowse heightened the feelings inside Stamford Bridge.

And within the latter minutes of the sport, a handful of yellow playing cards have been brandished by referee Chris Kavanagh following a touchline dispute involving each units of gamers.

Notably, Wesley Fofana and Marc Cucurella have been amongst these booked and can miss our match away at Liverpool following the worldwide break having been proven 5 yellow playing cards this season.

But the power of the Blues squad, as highlighted by Maresca, ensures there’s high quality able to step into the facet irrespective of the circumstance.

The Chelsea head coach mentioned: ‘Each membership has round 25 gamers, so it’s not one thing only for us, however the way in which now we have tried to do issues is to share minutes throughout all of them, and the explanation why is as a result of they deserve it.

‘Those that performed the opposite day within the Convention League [on Thursday night] did effectively and deserved to start out once more, however there was one other eleven that did a improbable job in opposition to Brighton.

‘We attempt to use all of them in the easiest way and, for certain, when now we have an harm, pink playing cards, or like now after we won’t have Wes and Marc, we’re going to use among the guys who at the moment weren’t within the first eleven.’