Badiashile joins list of Chelsea injured players

Ahead of their weekend face-off with EPL champions, Chelsea interim manager Frank Lampard confirmed that Benoît Badiashile has joined the list of the club’s players out on injury.

Lampard revealed Badiashile will not be available to play against City on Sunday and probably for the rest of the one week that’s left in the season.

It is another blow for Chelsea as they will be competing against a Man City side that thrashed La Liga giants Real Madrid in the Champions League.

Lampard in a pre-match statement said: “We’re pretty much similar [injury-wise] to where we have been recently in terms of Mason, Reece, Chilly, N’Golo, Marc Cucurella not fit.

“Kouli has been training this week, but probably not really ready for a game like this. He’s ahead of schedule to be fair.

“Benoît has injured himself in training two days ago, his groin and will miss the game. We’re assessing that now as we speak.”