{"id":749692,"date":"2026-02-08T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/749692\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:50:25","slug":"chelsea-injury-news-reece-james-update-provided-by-liam-rosenior-ahead-of-leeds-united-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/749692\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea injury news: Reece James update provided by Liam Rosenior ahead of Leeds United game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> head coach Liam Rosenior<\/a> has suggested that Reece James<\/a> will be available for Tuesday’s game with Leeds United.<\/p>\n

The Blues extended their 100% Premier League record under Rosenior to four games on Saturday afternoon as they recorded a 3-1 victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cole Palmer<\/a> was the star of the show at Molineux, netting two penalties before completing his hat-trick ahead the half-time whistle.<\/p>\n

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

With Chelsea having strengthened their hold of fifth position in the Premier League table<\/a><\/strong>, attention now turns to welcoming Leeds to Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Rosenior provides James injury update<\/p>\n

Having been left out of the squad for the Wolves fixture, James has now missed two games in a row.<\/p>\n

However, speaking at a press conference on Saturday night, Rosenior hinted that the club captain should be in a position to return to the group early next week.<\/p>\n

The Englishman told reporters: “He’s so close. He should be fit for Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a major problem at all. It’s a knock. Pain management issue. He was out running yesterday.”<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ Every Second Media<\/p>\n

Right time for James to return?<\/p>\n

While Rosenior is unlikely to risk James if he is not completely ready, Malo Gusto<\/a> has reached a point where a rest may be required.<\/p>\n

Under Enzo Maresca, Gusto’s fitness was managed on occasions, and the Frenchman has now racked up 302 minutes of football across four matches played in 11 days.<\/p>\n

Josh Acheampong<\/a> replaced the right-back in the 75th minute of Saturday’s game with Wolves in a bid to ease his workload.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, splitting the right-back minutes between James and Acheampong on Tuesday would make sense, with Gusto potentially returning for the FA Cup fourth round tie at Hull City on February 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior has suggested that Reece James will be available for Tuesday’s game with Leeds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,2826,4884,1860,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-749692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-rugby","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116032741687329900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}