There are players who are considered to be more successful if they were not haunted by injuries. Christopher Nkunku will be able to say the same for himself if he does not reach the predicted ranges. The French forward cannot spend several consecutive months on the pitch. As soon as he returned to the team, he will have to take a break again.The football public on the ‘island’ was surprised by Chelsea’s health bulletin, which the London club published before the FA Cup round of 16 match with Leeds, and on which the name of the former Leipzig forward was found among the injured players. Again! For the fourth time since joining the club this summer, Nkunku will have to take a three-week break at best.##NAJAVA_MECA_7910229##Before the start of the season, Nkunku suffered a serious knee injury that kept him out for three and a half months, then he missed another month and a half due to a lack of physical fitness, and at the beginning of the year he missed almost the entire first month of the new calendar year due to a hip problem. And just as he returned to the team at the end of January, less than four weeks later he experienced new bad luck…The official club statement states that Nkunku will have to undergo medical tests, but not the nature of his injury. In fact, at Stamford Bridge, they don’t even know how the Frenchman got injured in the first place! At the weekend, in the final of the League Cup against Liverpool, Nkunku came off the bench in the middle of the second half and, counting the overtime, spent almost an hour on the field.”Yesterday we found out that Nkunku was injured, but we don’t know when he got injured,” commented Mauricio Pochettino at the press conference ahead of the clash with Leeds, adding that he will not be able to count for about a month on the footballer who ‘grew up’ with the Paris Saint-Germain academy:” We’ll have to see. Three or four weeks, hopefully not more than that.”Mauricio expects Christopher Nkunku to be sidelined for three to four weeks. ℹ️— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) February 27, 2024 Christopher’s new injury will only increase the London club’s need to bring in a new striker, because although the club believes he has quality, Mauricio Pochettino will hardly be able to rely on him after numerous bad luck in his debut season in west London.”It’s difficult for him. We watched him when he came, during the pre-season, he was flying around the pitch until he got injured. It’s been eight months since then and he’s back, but he’s not the same player as before due to various circumstances. So sometimes it’s unfair when we judge a player,” added Pochettino.Nkunku arrived in Chelsea from Leipzig this summer for around 60,000,000 euros, but so far he has only played ten games and scored two goals.This is for Klopp! Virgil the Leader takes Liverpool to the League Cup trophy in a breathtaking showdown
