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<\/p>\nGiroud left the field on crutches in the 76th minute, after being injured by a James Tomkins tackle, while scoring an offside goal.
\nChelsea held onto the lead given to them by N\u2019Golo Kante\u2019s earlier strike to move five points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal.<\/p>\n
Sarri was forced to leave Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and Callum Hudson-Odoi out of his squad for the game due to injury, and may now be without Giroud for several weeks, with Chelsea\u2019s workload showing no sign of easing in a busy January.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is his ankle. I don\u2019t know the severity. We have to wait for [Monday]. I think that, later in the evening, I will see the doctor for the first results, but I think the real result will only be known [on Monday].<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last few days we were a but unlucky. Yesterday [Saturday], in 10 minutes we had three injuries \u2014 Fabregas, [Loftus-Cheek] and [Danny] Drinkwater \u2014 then Giroud, and we were already without Pedro and [Hudson-Odoi].<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in trouble because, in January, we have to play every three days. Fabregas has a neck problem. The injury was in the last five minutes of training, so I\u2019m not sure whether he has to rest for two or 10 days. I will have a meeting with the doctor this evening,\u201d Sarri said according to ESPN.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, has said that mounting injuries have left his team \u201cin trouble\u201d, after Olivier Giroud suffered suspected ankle ligament damage, during Sunday\u2019s 1-0 win over Crystal Palace. Giroud left the field on crutches in the 76th minute, after being injured by a James Tomkins tackle, while scoring an offside goal. Chelsea held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8175],"class_list":["post-74417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-maurizio-sarri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}