McFarlane provides updates on Chelsea trio ahead of final day clash with Sunderland | OneFootball

Calum McFarlane says Joao Pedro missed Chelsea’s win over Tottenham with a “slight knock”.

Chelsea kept their European hopes alive by beating their London rivals 2-1, staying in the hunt for a Europa League or Conference League place going into their final game against Sunderland.

And interim boss McFarlane hopes to have Joao Pedro available for the trip to the Stadium of Light.

“Joao Pedro had a slight knock, nothing that we’re massively concerned about,” he said.

“But again, with the quick turnaround from City, it just wasn’t worth risking Joao Pedro in that moment.”

Levi Colwill and Reece James also did not feature against Spurs, but McFarlane explained that it was due to their returns from injury being managed.

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“Levi has obviously come off the back of a very serious injury so it was probably too quick of a turnaround from the cup final. So that one pretty much speaks for itself, we didn’t want to risk him,” he said.

“We couldn’t afford to risk him tonight, but that would be expected. That would have been the plan from the beginning.

“Reece [James] is the same. We had Reece on the bench tonight, but again, coming off the back of an injury, the turnaround from the City game, the type of game that the City game was, we didn’t really want to risk him in that moment.”

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