{"id":8554,"date":"2026-05-15T02:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:24:45","slug":"chelsea-team-news-ahead-of-fa-cup-final-james-passed-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8554","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea team news ahead of FA Cup final: James passed fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Calum McFarlane has provided an update on his Chelsea squad ahead of this weekend\u2019s FA Cup final against Manchester City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea take on Manchester City at Wembley aiming to end their campaign with silverware. Ahead of the clash, McFarlane has confirmed that captain Reece James is fit and available, having trained well throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>Levi Colwill, who made his first start of the season in last weekend\u2019s draw at Liverpool, is also available. Pedro Neto and Alejandro Garnacho have also been passed fit to feature in a positive update from the West Londoners.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea team news: James and Colwill fit for FA Cup final<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cReece James trained well this week, happy with him,\u201d interim boss McFarlane said at his pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood he got some minutes, and I thought he did well when he came on as well. Largely happy with Reece. We are hopeful he can finish the season in this form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a similar story with Levi Colwill; he had a really good rehab. A really good training week, and we\u2019re really hopeful. Pedro Neto and Alejandro Garnacho have trained really well this week. All positive signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Chelsea boss McFarlane backs Palmer ahead of FA Cup final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Chelsea boss tips Joao Pedro to be Brazil\u2019s World Cup number nine<\/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 | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">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>Calum McFarlane has provided an update on his Chelsea squad ahead of this weekend\u2019s FA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8554","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\/8554","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=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}