From Dan Levene`s twitter account: Essien was limping quite badly post-match, but players can recover quickly. Nothing official yet - more news later in the week.

Let`s just pray that he is ready for the Arsenal-game. Who starts if not? Ramires is not ready for the pace of the EPL yet as he had all the time in the world on the ball in Portugal, and besides Mikel and him we really don`t have any senior midfielders left do we? Cross fingers...

On the bright side, apparently Fabianski is starting the Arsenal game.

I've moved this to rumours, as that is what it is. I've also amended the title to give people a clue as to what the thread is about.

Look at eth throwing his mod powers around, its gone to his bloody head. :D

careful, dicky, or he'll be correcting your spelling, too!

I'm sure I speak for the collective when I say let this be a bit of post match soreness or better yet nothing at all

Edited September 29, 201015 yr by Spiller86

I hope he's fit. I wouldn't like to see Essien injured anymore!

agree with mikstaw.

Hopefully we will not have to dredge up the "Worried about playing Essien to much thread".

Any who, as long as we have Drogba we should be fine! Also I think Ramirez might play a lot better against Arsenal than other EPL teams as they are not as physical and will likely give up more space.

Also, they are without a lot of their best players, the loss of Essien is significant but I think we should still be able to field a stronger team considering who is available for who.

No mention of any injury to Essien on Chelsea TV tonight.

I'd never heard of Dan Levene so had a quick look round. Found the blog you refer to here:

BluesChronicle

and it turns out the comment you quote was made by a certain asaCFC from Bangkok...

So we're all worked up over nothing Hutch?

Looks that way. Unless asaCFC knows something nobody else knows.