Chelsea received bad news when the knee injury that midfielder Chukwuemeka had in the recent West Ham confrontation was not light.
Not only receiving a 1-3 defeat against West Ham, Chelsea also received terrible news from midfielder Chukwuemeka. At the beginning of the second half, the English player hurt his knee and collapsed on the field.
No. 17 of Chelsea could not continue to play, coach Pochettino was forced to make a change when launching Mudryk on the field instead.
After the match, Chukwuemeka couldn’t even walk on her own. He had to use crutches and had difficulty moving.
This shows that the 2003 midfielder’s injury was not simple. Surely this is bad news for Chelsea. Previously, The Blues had recorded 2 cases of serious injuries including Nkunku and Reece James.
Mauricio Pochettino, the manager of Chelsea, issued an update on the young midfielder’s injuries and said that everyone will have to wait while he still processes the loss to West Ham United. After the game, he informed the media, “Now we need to analyze him tomorrow. Watch what happens to his knee. It was extremely unlucky.
After his first loss, he acknowledged that sometimes things like this might happen and that he was going to look at what went wrong for his team. “That is football, and this kind of thing happens, and we have to accept,” he continued. We made mistakes, and we must examine the game and own our mistakes.
“I believe we had opportunities in the first half that we did not take advantage of, and after Carney, we had to reorganize the team and couldn’t find the right balance.
“We had a lot of enthusiasm right away, but I had already informed the guys that it was going to be disappointing. We need to win this kind of game, and there are a lot of things we could do better, so I’m dissatisfied.
Before leaving the field, Chukwuemeka played very aggressively. It was he who authored the 1-1 equalizer against West Ham. After losing the 19-year-old player, Chelsea can no longer create a breakthrough in attack, especially at the time of playing more people. That is one of the important reasons why the Blues failed.
Despite spending nearly $1 billion over the course of the last three transfer windows, Chelsea’s two midfielders, who cost more than £100 million each, were at fault in today’s match. Enzo Fernandez missed a critical penalty, but Moises Caicedo gave West Ham the win by forcing one.
