“Trained fully” – Calum McFarlane gives update on Chelsea stars

Chelsea could see a significant improvement to their team on Saturday, with two start players capable of starting the game.

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Calum McFarlane is taking his press conference ahead of Chelsea’s game against Liverpool on Saturday, and the priority today was injury updates on two potential starters.

Levi Colwill made his return this week for the first time since last season after recovering from an ACL injury. Meanwhile Reece James has missed more than a month with a hamstring problem.

According to McFarlane, both are close:

“We’ve got a few lads returning,” the interim coach said.

“Levi and Reece have trained a full week. It’s looking promising. We’ve still got another session – they both trained fully today.”

James and Colwill could both start against Liverpool

It’s really touch and go on both of them it seems. Colwill got 45 minutes on Monday, which on the one hand brings up his match fitness but on the other probably limits the number of minutes he can play.

James didn’t get on the pitch, but has been close enough to a start now for long enough that we’d imagine he’s ready.

At this stage, our best guess is that they both start and aim for 60 minutes.