{"id":13327,"date":"2025-10-17T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/blow-for-chelsea-as-palmer-to-miss-six-more-weeks-with-groin-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:19","slug":"blow-for-chelsea-as-palmer-to-miss-six-more-weeks-with-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/blow-for-chelsea-as-palmer-to-miss-six-more-weeks-with-groin-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow for Chelsea as Palmer to miss six more weeks with groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer will be out of action for six more weeks due to a groin injury, manager Enzo Maresca said on the eve of Saturday&#8217;s Premier League clash at Nottingham Forest.<\/div>\n<div>\nPalmer sustained the injury in August, but returned to action with back-to-back goals against Brentford and Bayern Munich.<\/div>\n<div>However, the 23-year-old England international aggravated the injury during Chelsea&#8217;s 2-1 defeat at Manchester United on September 20.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I was wrong (about Palmer). Unfortunately, he needs to be out for six more weeks,&#8221; Maresca told reporters on Friday.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We try to protect Cole as much as we can. The most important thing is when he comes back, he is fully fit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The medical staff are not magicians. We hope six weeks are enough. We need to see it step-by-step. For sure, he&#8217;s going to be okay.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He looks relaxed. He has tried to recover from the injury and is doing all the therapy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Palmer, who has scored two goals in four matches across all competitions this season, is set to miss the Forest fixture, a Champions League tie against Ajax Amsterdam and another Premier League match versus Sunderland.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chelsea sit seventh with 11 points from seven matches, trailing leaders Arsenal by five points.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13328,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-13327","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18501,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13327\/revisions\/18501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}