Enzo Maresca set for crucial meeting with medical staff to determine future of key man | OneFootball

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca is now set to sit down for a meeting with the medical staff to determine the fitness of one star.

The Blues have become heavily reliant on Cole Palmer to be the main source of creativity and goals in this team and even though they have signed new players to help him out more this season, in previous seasons he has kind of become the one man band in that sense and it has very much been Cole Palmer FC at times.

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So he is a hugely important player to this team and to Maresca, and without him, there would be major concerns.

But the reality is, Chelsea could be without Cole Palmer for an amount of time coming up because he is struggling with a reoccurring injury that will not seem to go away.

Palmer limped off after 20 minutes against Manchester United in their defeat their on Saturday night, speaking fresh concern about his injury.

Maresca spoke at Chelsea’s pre-match press conference for the Lincoln game tonight and it looks like some embargoed quotes have now come out on Palmer.

A meeting to be had

Cole Palmer goes off injured against Manchester United.(Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Maresca has revealed that a meeting will be held to discuss the best course of action as the club manage their star player’s fitness.

“We need to protect Cole, for sure,” Maresca said. “Not only Cole, in my personal view, because of the Club World Cup and because we never stop.

“We need to manage and protect different players. For sure, Cole is one of them. Another one is Moi [Moises Caicedo].

“Joao Pedro, also. Since he joined us, he’s playing every game. The solution with Cole, I don’t know.”

Maresca added: “Now we have a meeting with the medical staff and we decide the best solution for him. But it’s also a kind of injury that is not like black and white.

“It’s not an injury that some day you can be better. It’s not that you are playing and tomorrow you disappear.

“Sometimes you can be better, sometimes you can be worse. That’s why we need to manage day by day.”

Maresca also questioned his lack of defenders

Maresca also lamented that injuries mean he will likely have to play Tosin Adarabioyo, Wesley Fofana or Trevoh Chalobah in tonigt’s game.

“I would love to rest both of them because they deserve to rest,” Maresca said of Chalobah and Tosin.

“The problem is that we also have Wes Fofana playing after a long time. So if we rest Tosin, if we rest Trev, and if we rest Wes, probably I need to play some part of the game!

“We don’t have defenders, so some of them need to play.

Quotes via The Evening Standard.