Chelsea have no new wounds heading into Tuesday's improved conflict with Brighton.
Thomas Tuchel is still without longer-term truants Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah, while Andreas Christensen is holing up subsequent to testing positive for Covid last week.
Ben Chilwell is out for the season with foremost cruciate tendon harm.
Tuchel is probably going to handle a similar safeguard as he accomplished for the 1-0 loss to Manchester City at the end of the week, with Malang Sarr, Thiago Silva and Antonio Rudiger in a back three.
Chelsea sit 13 focuses unfastened of Premier League pioneers City going into the game and Tuchel has repeated his disappointment over the quantity of wounds and Covid cases that have sabotaged his side's title challenge.
He said: "It is a piece exhausting for myself since it is a similar response constantly, however central participants are central participants since they have key conduct and key things in clubs and dressing rooms."That is the reason you want them and that brings you through a season and City is clearly over-performing on the exceptionally greatest. To close the hole from where we came from, to close the hole, we were never modest to say it and to attempt it, we actually are, however at that point you want to over-perform and for over-execution you want everyone.
"Somewhat recently we had the inclination assuming you have a negative Covid test and you are a safeguard, simply play, you are pushed to play, you are raced to play. I don't know somewhat recently assuming that we got the opportunity to play the back five in a similar arrangement.
"I figure you will wind up in September or August (when it last occurred). It seems like that. Perhaps it isn't, yet it seems like that thus you come up short on a tad of schedule, of programmed conduct.
"It is extremely normal and for the conditions wherein we are in and for the conditions which are not our shortcoming, I am glad for where the group is. I'm glad the manner in which we act and there is no compelling reason to question the cycle, no compelling reason to question the group and what we do. We are as yet solid and we will bob back and never surrender."
Chelsea anticipated XI: Kepa; Sarr, Silva, Rudiger; Azpilicueta, Kante, Jorginho, Alonso; Mount, Lukaku, Werner
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