{"id":7479,"date":"2026-05-12T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:30:30","slug":"updates-on-pedro-neto-alejandro-garnacho-robert-sanchez-2-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=7479","title":{"rendered":"Updates On Pedro Neto, Alejandro Garnacho, Robert Sanchez &#038; 2 Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<p><strong>Chelsea interim head coach Calum McFarlane says he is \u201cvery hopeful\u201d that Pedro Neto will be back for the FA Cup final this weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The winger has missed the last two matches against Nottingham Forest and <strong>Liverpool<\/strong> with a muscular injury.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Neto and Alejandro Garnacho would be fit to face Manchester City on Saturday, McFarlane replied:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we are very hopeful. You have to take these things day by day. We\u2019re hoping that they\u2019ll be available, but we don\u2019t know at this moment in time. They\u2019re going to get back into training. We\u2019ll see how they feel, see how it looks. So, fingers crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected Return Date \u2013 Saturday 16th May vs Manchester City (n)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Alejandro Garnacho<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1076756692\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>As McFarlane says above, he is optimistic that the Argentinian international will be back for the game at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Like Neto, Garnacho has missed the last two matches with a niggling muscular issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected Return Date \u2013 Saturday 16th May vs Manchester City (n)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Robert Sanchez<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1077038244\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The keeper suffered a concussion following a clash of heads with Morgan Gibbs-White during the 3-1 home defeat to Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez was substituted in the second half, with Filip Jorgensen taking his place for the remaining minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Jorgensen also took the gloves for the draw against Liverpool, with Sanchez still needing to clear concussion protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Further testing is needed, but there is an expectation that the Spanish international will be back this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected Return Date \u2013 Saturday 16th May vs Manchester City (n)<\/strong><\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea interim head coach Calum McFarlane says he is \u201cvery hopeful\u201d that Pedro Neto will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","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\/7479","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=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}