{"id":10695,"date":"2026-05-19T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:26:51","slug":"chelsea-need-to-be-careful-with-colwill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=10695","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea &#8216;need to be careful&#8217; with Colwill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea \u201cneed to be careful\u201d when managing Levi Colwill\u2019s comeback, says interim boss Calum McFarlane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The defender recently returned from a long-term knee injury and has started for <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Chelsea<\/strong><\/span>  in their past two matches.<\/p>\n<p>They face a London derby against relegation-threatened London rivals Tottenham at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Colwill is likely to feature in the game, McFarlane said: \u201cWe need to be careful with Levi. He\u2019s performed well in those two games. We\u2019ll see how he looks today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great to have Levi back \u2013 and great for English football as well. We have a really talented, high-potential player. We\u2019re all really excited about Levi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benoit Badiashile, Mamadou Sarr and Romeo Lavia were all absent for<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>  the FA Cup final against Manchester City on Saturday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lavia has been nursing a slight knock, while Badiashile and Sarr were left out but could return to the squad against Spurs if Colwill is rested.<\/p>\n<p>McFarlane explained: \u201cThey didn\u2019t make the squad (against City). They\u2019re training really well, training really hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can use them in the next two games, potentially, but we\u2019ve got a lot of players in those positions, so you want to make sure you\u2019ve got the right balance on your bench, but nothing to report with those two.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea \u201cneed to be careful\u201d when managing Levi Colwill\u2019s comeback, says interim boss Calum McFarlane&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}