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Tuchel issues injury update on two key Chelsea stars

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Ahead of Chelsea’s trip to Leeds, Thomas Tuchel has issued the latest injury updates on Tammy Abraham and Thiago Silva.

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has confirmed that Thiago Silva and Tammy Abraham have suffered injury setbacks in training. As a result, both players will miss the Blues’ game against Leeds United on Saturday.

Thiago Silva was named among the substitutes for Chelsea in their 2-0 win over Everton on Monday. It was expected that he would feature against Leeds but yet another injury setback will keep the veteran defender out of action.

Tammy Abraham continues to struggle with an ankle problem he picked up in Chelsea’s win over Burnley at the end of January.

In what was a rather early pre-match conference, Thomas Tuchel gave the latest on the situation surrounding both players.

“Thiago had a little setback in training at the end of the training session the day before yesterday. He felt at the very end something around the same area where he was injured so we had to take him off, so he is back into a transition phase but not back into team training.”

“Tammy Abraham has still the ankle pain from the tackle against Burnley”

“Yesterday he came off [in training], the day before he was fine, so these two are out for tomorrow and everybody else is available.”

Tuchel stressed further concern for Abraham, who has now battled injury for almost six weeks.

“It is still the pain from a tackle a long time ago now. He does not feel really 100 per cent free and comfortable and I can see it in training, even if he finishes training I see it is not 100 per cent that he has trust in it.”

“I have 100 per-cent trust in our medical department, they are fantastic and they take care of it now. First of all it is most important he feels safe and free and feels zero pain, and then we can think about his comeback.”

Tuchel remains unbeaten as Chelsea manager in all competitions since he took over from Frank Lampard. The German would fancy his chances at extending that run when the Blues face a Leeds side that have lost five out of their last six games.

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