{"id":71141,"date":"2026-05-14T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/71141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:32:25","slug":"chelsea-injury-news-robert-sanchez-alejandro-garnacho-pedro-neto-updates-provided-ahead-of-fa-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/71141\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea injury news: Robert Sanchez, Alejandro Garnacho, Pedro Neto updates provided ahead of FA Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interim Chelsea<\/a> head coach Calum McFarlane has suggested that Robert Sanchez<\/a>, Alejandro Garnacho<\/a> and Pedro Neto<\/a> are all available for the FA Cup final.<\/p>\n

The Blues will make the trip to Wembley Stadium to face Manchester City<\/a> looking to end a five-year winless streak against Pep Guardiola’s side.<\/p>\n

At a time when Chelsea could end the weekend in the bottom half of the Premier League table<\/a>, they have also been contending with a number of fitness issues.<\/p>\n

Garnacho and Neto have missed the double-header with Nottingham Forest and Liverpool due to muscle issues.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sanchez was absent from the squad that travelled to Anfield last weekend due to a head injury sustained during the second half versus Forest.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ Sportimage<\/p>\n

McFarlane delivers Chelsea injury update<\/p>\n

However, speaking at a press conference on Thursday, McFarlane gave the impression that the trio would all feature in his squad for the showpiece occasion.<\/p>\n

He told reporters: “Pedro Neto and Ale Garnacho have trained well this week. Looking hopeful for them.”<\/p>\n

On Sanchez, McFarlane added: “Yep. Same news as the other lads, to be honest. He’s trained really well this week so we will see on Saturday.”<\/p>\n

McFarlane also revealed that Reece James and Levi Colwill are currently in line to be available after their return from long-term injuries.<\/p>\n

Colwill has played 45 and 90 minutes respectively against Forest and Liverpool after spending the season sidelined with a serious knee injury.<\/p>\n

James had not featured since March 14 before he came through the final half-hour of the Liverpool game last weekend.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Iconsport \/ PA Images<\/p>\n

McFarlane left with selection dilemmas<\/p>\n

Providing that Sanchez is passed fit, McFarlane must decide whether to recall the Spaniard in place of Filip Jorgensen.<\/p>\n

>Click here to see the other four selection dilemmas that McFarlane must contend with ahead of the FA Cup Final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interim Chelsea head coach Calum McFarlane has suggested that Robert Sanchez, Alejandro Garnacho and Pedro Neto are all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[18947,35780,4021,27538,114,20893,6069,304,5007,35779,674,35781,14286,1481],"class_list":{"0":"post-71141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pedro-sanchez","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-epl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-olympics","15":"tag-pedro-sanchez","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-rugby","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-sports-mole","20":"tag-teams","21":"tag-tennis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116573657075232256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}