{"id":2921,"date":"2026-05-01T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:45:18","slug":"promising-update-on-james-on-colwill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Promising&#8217; update on James on Colwill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Chelsea interim manager Calum McFarlane revealed that both Reece James and Levi Colwill look \u201cpromising\u201d for a return from injury ahead of this weekend\u2019s game against Nottingham Forest. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues host the Tricky Trees at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Monday, with kickoff slated for 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of injury concerns facing Chelsea ahead of the match, but McFarlane confirmed that captain James has returned to training this week and Colwill is closing in on a return to action.<\/p>\n<p>James has been out of action since sustaining a hamstring injury against Newcastle United in mid-March, while Colwill has missed the entirety of the 2025\/26 campaign with a serious knee issue.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Chelsea injury news: \u2018Promising\u2019 update on James on Colwill<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cReece James is back in training. Levi Colwill is also looking promising,\u201d McFarlane said in his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe are taking it day by day. Levi had a long injury and Reece had a really good run before getting injured again. A lot of games are still to play so we don\u2019t want to push too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013 Power Rankings: Manchester United upward, top two collide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013\u00a0Newcastle set sights on Jackson after Bayern decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow The Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea interim manager Calum McFarlane revealed that both Reece James and Levi Colwill look \u201cpromising\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","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\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}