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Chelsea manager, Xabi Alonso, has confirmed that goalkeeper Robert Sanchez picked up an wounded successful grooming up of their pre-season affable brushwood with Tottenham Hotspur.
Alonso disclosed this to reporters astatine his post-match interrogation aft Chelsea’s 2-1 decision to Tottenham Hotspur connected Saturday.
Sanchez was a conspicuous absentee arsenic Alonso’s broadside tackled Tottenham successful Sydney’s Accor Stadium.
Answering a question connected the goalkeeper situation, Alonso said, “Mike [Penders] is joining america successful Hong Kong, and Robert has a insignificant [injury], not a large thing, but not for today, and we volition person to hold until, let’s see, for the adjacent week.
“We request to spell assessing astir time by day, but determination was nary constituent successful taking risks today,” Alonso said (via Football London).
Chelsea’s adjacent affable lucifer is against Juventus connected Wednesday.
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