Romeo Lavia’s first competitive minutes since November could come today says exclusive | OneFootball

Romeo Lavia has had an injury nightmare this season, and through his whole time at Chelsea. But he’s close to a return to action.

Romeo Lavia’s three seasons at Chelsea so far have been a complete nightmare, lets’ face it. But the midfielder is closing in on his latest return to action.

An exclusive in the Evening Standard claims that he’s going to play tonight for the Chelsea Under-21 team against Leeds, getting some competitive action as he builds up his match fitness. He’s not played since the start of November.

They say that Lavia has been back in first team training for “ten days to two weeks,” so he’s ready to try a game. The match against Arsenal on March 1st is “earmarked” as the game he could make his first team return. We’ll see how he gets on later today.

Lavia still has a future as a first team squad option, if not a regular

Romeo Lavia sits on the turf after picking up an injury against Qarabag.

Let’s be honest – after three seasons of featuring rarely (if at all), none of us have much faith in Lavia ever getting back to the level of playing regularly enough to be a key squad member. But he’s still just 22, and stranger things have happened. If he could play regularly but with managed minutes, like Reece James and Wesley Fofana, that would still be useful.

And it’s too early to rule that out as a possibility. So let’s stay positive.

In other news…

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Landon Emenalo is a rising star in the academy, and we’re keen to see his first team debut – it should be coming up very soon.

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