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Chelsea interim boss Calum McFarlane\u00a0has confirmed\u00a0that first-choice goalkeeper Robert Sanchez is ruled out of the Blues\u2019 trip to Anfield to face Liverpool on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n Chelsea find themselves at a defining stage of their Premier League season, sitting ninth in the table and battling to avoid missing out on European football altogether.<\/p>\n Even with their league difficulties, the campaign is not beyond saving, as a looming FA Cup Final clash against Manchester City still presents an opportunity to finish the season with silverware.<\/p>\n Before that, the Blues face a must-win trip to Anfield to take on Liverpool, who have also endured inconsistency this season.<\/p>\n Injuries, however, are deepening Chelsea\u2019s problems, with S\u00e1nchez now added to the growing list of absentees.<\/p>\n The 6ft 5in shotstopper was forced off during the recent 3-1 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest after a heavy collision with Morgan Gibbs-White.<\/p>\n Although he underwent further assessment, mandatory concussion protocols have ruled him out of an immediate return.<\/p>\n Filip J\u00f8rgensen, who recently returned to the squad after injury, replaced S\u00e1nchez from the bench against Forest and is now expected to start at Anfield.<\/p>\n During Thursday afternoon\u2019s pre-match press conference, interim manager McFarlane also shared a fresh injury update on the Chelsea squad ahead of the trip to Merseyside.<\/p>\n On Sanchez, he said, \u2018Rob is also not going to be available after the injury that he sustained.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n Further forward, the injury situation has done little to ease the Blues\u2019 growing problems, with both Pedro Neto and Alejandro Garnacho expected to miss the clash against Liverpool.<\/p>\n The two wingers picked up knocks during training ahead of the defeat to Forest and have not recovered in time, leaving McFarlane short of wide options.<\/p>\n \u2018Neto and Garnacho are carrying knocks, so it\u2019s looking unlikely that they are going to be available (against Liverpool),\u2019<\/em> McFarlane said to reporters.<\/p>\n Those latest injury blows only add to an already stretched injury situation for Chelsea, with long-term absentees such as Estev\u00e3o, Willian, and Jamie Gittens still unavailable.<\/p>\n The growing list of sidelined players has left the interim coach with very limited room to rotate his squad as the team continues to navigate a demanding and unstable final run of fixtures.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea interim boss Calum McFarlane\u00a0has confirmed\u00a0that first-choice goalkeeper Robert Sanchez is ruled out of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6117","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\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rememore](\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FootballTalk_New_Chapter-rememore.png\")
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