Chelsea boss, Frank Lampard, has confirmed that the club’s new goalkeeper, Edouard Mendy, will have to wait to make his debut for the Blues given the Senegalese international has barely trained ahead of his side’s Premier League clash with West Brom on Saturday evening at the Hawthorns Stadium.
Mendy officially joined Chelsea on Thursday from Rennes. The 28-year-old is expected to compete with Chelsea’s first-choice goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga at Stamford Bridge.
“To start tomorrow is not going to happen,” Lampard said at his pre-match press conference on Friday when asked about Mendy’s chances of replacing Kepa in the team against West Brom.
“He has had a long week and not really trained. He flew in yesterday, and it is too tight of a turnaround to start.”
Lampard added: “I haven’t spoken to him, but I will have a conversation with him and Caballero in 24 hours or so. There is good competition between them.”
Chelsea head to the game after defeating Barnsley 6-0 in the Carabao Cup third-round tie on Wednesday.
Lampard, has provided the latest injury updates on Hakim Ziyech and Christian Pulisic ahead of his side’s Premier League clash with West Brom on Saturday evening.
Ziyech and Pulisic missed Chelsea’s 6-0 victory against Barnsley in the Carabao Cup third-round tie on Wednesday due to injury.
But Lampard is now saying that Ziyech and Pulisic are yet to recover from their injury to feature against West Brom at the Hawthorns Stadium this weekend, adding that both players will return to action in the next two weeks.
“Hakim Ziyech and Christian Pulisic are not ready for the squad tomorrow,” Lampard said at his pre-match press conference on Friday.
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“But they are both training with us now, which is good news, and we hope to have them in proper match contention over the next week or two.”
The kick-off time for the match is scheduled at 5:30 pm.
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