{"id":5679,"date":"2026-05-08T03:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:48:20","slug":"chelsea-set-for-massive-double-injury-boost-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5679","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea set for massive double injury boost vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<h6>News<span> \u00bb <\/span>Premier League news<span> \u00bb <\/span>Liverpool news<\/h6>\n<p class=\"articletimestamp\">May 7, 2026 20:37 GMT (UK), by <!-- Author Start -->Sri Aswin<!-- Author End -->\n<\/p>\n<h6>View Liverpool summer 2026 transfer targets<\/h6>\n<div style=\"float:right\">\n<figure>\n<p class=\"article_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyefootball.com\/imghold\/largestCalum_McFarlane.jpg\" title=\"Chelsea set for massive double injury boost vs Liverpool\" alt=\"Chelsea set for massive double injury boost vs Liverpool\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p><figcaption><em itemprop=\"articleSection\">James &#038; Colwill could start vs Liverpool<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:16px\">\n<strong>Chelsea could receive a double injury boost ahead of the Premier League encounter against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!-- responsive_ad --><\/p>\n<p>The Blues have been in a poor run of league form and have suffered six defeats on the bounce. As a result, they are languishing ninth in the standings with 48 points and need to arrest the slide in the final three games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Saturday&#8217;s early kick-off at Anfield, interim manager <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Calum McFarlane<\/span><\/span>  has already ruled out the likes of <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Alejandro Garnacho<\/span><\/span>, <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Pedro Neto<\/span><\/span>  and <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Robert Sanchez<\/span><\/span>  with minor injury concerns.<\/p>\n<p>However, there could be a big double boost with the caretaker confirming that <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Reece James<\/span><\/span>  and <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Levi Colwill<\/span><\/span>  have trained completely with the squad and could be in contention to start versus the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;We have a few lads returning. Levi has trained a full week again. Reece as well. Looking promising. We&#8217;ve still got another session. We&#8217;re hopeful (they could start).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colwill has not played any part this campaign after a serious knee injury last summer and the Englishman may need to be handled cautiously.<br \/><!-- Article End --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- newadv --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\nvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)(0);\nif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\njs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\njs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\nfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News \u00bb Premier League news \u00bb Liverpool news May 7, 2026 20:37 GMT (UK), by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","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\/5679","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=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}