Nicolas Jackson ready for 'special' Chelsea showdown as Vincent Kompany addresses potential start | OneFootball

Senegalese striker will hope to play key part for Bayern Munich against his parent club in the Champions League

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Chelsea scrapped Jackson’s original proposed loan switch to Bayern at the 11th hour while he was en route to Germany for a medical, having lost fellow striker Liam Delap for up to 12 weeks with a hamstring injury sustained in the win over Fulham.

The decision left the player furious and he was reluctant to return to London as he still sought to join Bayern, who initially appeared to exit negotiations before then reviving talks on Deadline Day.

Having agreed a deal with Sunderland for the early return of loanee Marc Guiu, Chelsea eventually allowed Jackson to join the reigning Bundesliga champions on a £14.3million loan deal for the rest of the season that includes the obligation for a permanent £56.2m transfer next summer that will be triggered if he makes a certain amount of starts.

Bayern’s honorary president Uli Hoeneß later revealed that number to be 40, attracting headlines for insisting that Jackson would “never” achieve it - a claim shrugged off by the player himself.

Jackson has made one solitary appearance for in-form Bayern so far, replacing Serge Gnabry at half-time of Saturday’s 5-0 drubbing of Hamburg in the Bundesliga.

He will now hope to play a prominent role as Chelsea come to town in the Champions League, with no rules preventing him from facing his parent club.

However, Jackson will find it hard to disrupt the order of a prolific Bayern attack featuring Harry Kane, Michael Olise, Luis Diaz and Gnabry, who between them have already compiled 21 goal contributions so far this term.

"We will see tomorrow,” Kompany said when asked at his pre-match press conference if Jackson was ready to start against Chelsea. “I would be giving a little bit too much away about the team. On the second question [is he ready physically and emotionally], you could see it both ways.

Quizzed if he could ask Jackson about Chelsea, the Bayern boss replied: “Technically you could, but I've already watched probably 40 games of Chelsea last season. They're an interesting team to observe.

“But I don't think there's a lot of mystery around them, and I know the coach very well. I'll quickly see tomorrow whether we've done our homework. But the most important thing is that the players feel good, not that I feel good. That applies to Enzo Maresca's team, too, of course.”

Kane, meanwhile, was full of praise for Jackson as he also addressed the media on Tuesday ahead of Chelsea’s visit.

“He's been great so far,” said the England captain. “It was good for him to get 45 minutes on the weekend. He looked sharp and had a couple of half-chances.

“He looked really good in training. He's physically very strong and fast. If he plays tomorrow he'll be eager to impress and get his first Bayern goal. I don't want to put too much pressure on him.”