Chelsea cannot recall Trevoh Chalobah from Crystal Palace loan as Enzo Maresca considers options
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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has left the door open to further loan recalls this month, but Trevoh Chalobah will not prove the answer to the club’s centre-back injury crisis. The Blues are light at the heart of defence heading into the second half of the season, after Maresca confirmed lengthy spells on the sidelines for both Benoit Badiashile and Wesley Fofana.
Fofana could miss the rest of the season with a hamstring injury sustained against Aston Villa at the start of last month, while Badiashile, who had briefly stepped up as his deputy, will not return until February at the earliest after suffering a hamstring problem of his own.
On Friday, the Blues confirmed that 19-year-old defender Aaron Anselmino has been recalled from his loan spell at Boca Juniors, having been sent straight back to the Argentine outfit after signing for Chelsea last summer. Anselmino is not expected to play an immediate first-team role, but asked whether he was considering bringing any other loan players back to Cobham this month, Maresca said: “I don’t know. Probably with the problems we have now with central defenders, we can think about some profiles like that.
“But at this moment, the main focus is just about tomorrow’s game [against Crystal Palace].”. Chalobah, who joined Palace on a season-long loan on August’s deadline day, will be ineligible for tomorrow’s meeting with his parent club at Selhurst Park but has become a regular under Oliver Glasner this season.
