{"id":324001,"date":"2026-04-24T20:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324001"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:42:53","slug":"cole-palmer-and-joao-pedro-injury-update-ahead-of-chelsea-vs-leeds-united-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/cole-palmer-and-joao-pedro-injury-update-ahead-of-chelsea-vs-leeds-united-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro injury update ahead of Chelsea vs Leeds United | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Cole Palmer missed Tuesday\u2019s defeat to Brighton (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro are in contention to return to the starting lineup when Chelsea face Leeds United in FA Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries meant each players were absent from Tuesday\u2019s 3-0 defeat to Brighton, a loss which delivered to an end Liam Rosenior\u2019s ill-fated spell in command of the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>But Callum McFarlane, who has replaced Rosenior until the tip of the season, revealed that each are back in training ahead of Sunday\u2019s visit to Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Joao and Cole have trained,\u2019 the brand new interim head coach said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They\u2019re in an excellent place. We don\u2019t know yet. We\u2019ve got one other day tomorrow where we\u2019ll have a look at that and make a choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yes we hope [they could both start]. They\u2019ll train tomorrow and we\u2019ll make a call.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it isn&#8217;t all excellent news on the injury front for Chelsea, with McFarlane confirming that Estevao will miss the remainder of the season as a consequence of a serious hamstring injury picked up against Manchester United.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2271405277.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28103035\" alt=\"Chelsea v Manchester United - Premier League\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Estevao will miss the remainder of the season (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Estevao unfortunately won\u2019t play for us this season,\u2019 he added. \u2018He\u2019ll be out for a little bit little bit of time. But we\u2019re here to support him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Asked in regards to the Brazilian international\u2019s possibilities of recovering in time for the World Cup, McFarlane added: \u2018I\u2019m undecided on that if I\u2019m honest. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018He won\u2019t be available for us. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s very hopeful he could make the World Cup but I don\u2019t know on that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Levi Colwill, Reece James, Jamie Gittens and Filip Jorgensen remain sidelined for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the most recent news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportmetro\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/metrosportuk\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Frank Lampard responds to Chelsea return link after Liam Rosenior sacking<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Alan Shearer\u2019s FA Cup and Premier League predictions including Arsenal vs Newcastle<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Did Chelsea simply stop running for Liam Rosenior? 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Injuries meant each players were absent from Tuesday\u2019s 3-0 defeat to Brighton, a loss which delivered to an end Liam Rosenior\u2019s ill-fated spell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[1127,1289,7603,5479,667,20743,23171,760,17826,1458,581],"class_list":["post-324001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ahead","tag-chelsea","tag-cole","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-joao","tag-leeds","tag-palmer","tag-pedro","tag-united","tag-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324004,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324001\/revisions\/324004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}