{"id":927,"date":"2026-04-26T06:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=927"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:56:26","slug":"chelsea-duo-back-in-training-for-leeds-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea duo back in training for Leeds game"},"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>Leeds United news<\/h6>\n<p class=\"articletimestamp\">April 24, 2026 19:52 GMT (UK), by <!-- Author Start -->Sri Aswin<!-- Author End -->\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right\">\n<figure>\n<p class=\"article_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyefootball.com\/imghold\/largestCole_Palmer_24.jpg\" title=\"Cole Palmer news\" alt=\"Cole Palmer news\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p><figcaption><em itemprop=\"articleSection\">Chelsea duo to return vs Leeds<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:16px\">\n<strong>Chelsea interim manager <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Calum McFarlane<\/span><\/span>  has confirmed that <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Cole Palmer<\/span><\/span>  and <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/span><\/span>  are back in training ahead of the FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United this weekend.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!-- responsive_ad --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px; padding-top:10px\">\n<p>The Blues have been in a dreadful run of league form and they have suffered five losses on the bounce without scoring. This recently led to the dismissal of head coach <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Liam Rosenior<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>McFarlane has been handed temporary charge for the remainder of the campaign and has his sights on taking the Blues to an FA Cup final by beating the Whites at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the game, he has revealed that Palmer and Pedro are back in training and a late decision will be made on their involvement from the starting XI.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Joao (Pedro) and Cole (Palmer), they trained and are in a good place. We don&#8217;t know yet. We are hopeful (they can start).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Blues face a tricky challenge against Leeds United, who recently secured a sublime 2-1 win over Manchester United away from home in the Premier League.<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 Leeds United news April 24, 2026 19:52 GMT (UK),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}