Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has confirmed striker Tammy Abraham is not fit for their trip to Bournemouth on Saturday.
The striker missed the defeat by Manchester United earlier this month due to an ankle injury and then returned in last week's win over Tottenham before coming off the bench against Bayern Munich in midweek.
But Abraham aggravated the same ankle injury during the cool-down after Tuesday's 3-0 Champions League loss to the German giants.
Speaking ahead of his side's trip to the south coast, Lampard offered a bleak injury updated: '(Christian) Pulisic is injured. (N'Golo) Kante injured, Abraham injured. We are trying to find a solution with Tammy. It’s the same.'
The 22-year-old was undergoing a series of tests on Wednesday to determine the extent of the injury and the diagnosis has not been positive.
It will undoubtedly lead to concerns he could miss a clutch of crucial games, including Chelsea's crucial FA Cup fifth round clash against Liverpool on Tuesday.
Yeociknory
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I trust Tammy Abraham to the deep extent his the only Chelsea striker now who likes to score goals. If not for him we would have been at number 10 now.. Thanks Tammy Abraham am wishing u a quick recovery bro...
Nesaiknruy_Legend
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This is the boards fault, they didnt reinforce the team with a new striker and Frank was begging for one and now the consequences show. People who are begging for Giroud now will be moaning in 2 weeks time that he ain't good enough cos that's the "Chelsea way" with this fanbase nowadays. People dont even know what they want and will blame players after a few bad games. Chelsea fanbase the only one where fans are never actually satisfied even if we win UCL there will probably be people blaming someone.
huwklmopyz
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that's why players got to be really fit to play no rushing.....otherwise this will cause more damage than good....