Maresca on suspensions and injuries pre Liverpool

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca on the suspensions and injuries his side have ahead of their huge Premier League clash with Liverpool Cobham, London, UK

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00:00What team news have you got for us? Any players returning? Any fresh injury worries after the international break?

00:07No, finally we are all available, so we have all the squad available, unless the suspended one.

00:14What was in your thinking there, because you have to make two enforced changes in a back four?

00:20Yeah, it's not a problem. I said since we started that I'm very happy with the squad,

00:27I'm very happy with the players that we are using. Since we started we tried to share a little bit of minutes

00:36between all the competition we have. So we have two suspended players that they are not able to play

00:44and we're going to find different players that they can play.

00:48Will Rhys James be in the squad for Sunday?

00:51He's available, finally he's back. He worked with us all the international break and it's good news

00:59especially for him because being injured is not a good feeling, so finally he's back.

01:05It's been so difficult for him, for any athlete to continually come back and get injured again.

01:12What have you done different as a medical team, as a club this time?

01:16Do you feel that this is difficult? Is it difficult to know that and predict that?

01:21No, it's always complicated when you get injury, injury, injury again.

01:28It's not easy, so you are always looking for a solution.

01:32Probably the solution with Rhys is the same solution we are using with Romeo and Wes

01:43in terms of using them just once a week, one game, because probably in this moment for different reasons

01:51Rhys' body cannot play, for instance, twice a week.

02:00So probably one of the solutions is that we are going to try to manage him

02:06in the same way we are doing with Wes and Romeo.