Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has provided the latest injury update on midfielder, N’Golo Kante, following his side’s 2-1 victory over Barcelona on Tuesday in a pre-season friendly in Japan.
DAILY POST had reported that Kante left the club’s pre-season camp on Sunday and returned to London after suffering a knee injury.
The France World Cup winner picked up the injury against Watford at the start of May and has yet to fully recover from the problem.
Kante was part of Lampard’s 25-man squad for the pre-season tour of Japan but he wasn’t included in the squad that lost 1-0 to Kawasaki Frontale on Friday.
Providing update on Kante’s injury after Chelsea’s win over Barcelona, Lampard was quoted by Chelsea’s official website as saying: “For someone in their rehab it’s much more beneficial to be at Cobham with the facilities we have there. It’s not a big backwards step we’ve taken. Hopefully when we get back and are training towards the weekend, Kante will be in a position to pretty much join in with us.
“It was just the best possible work for him to get his individual work so I’m hopeful he’s ready for the start of the season. Maybe a break for someone who has played so many games over the past few years at such a level, it may not be the worst.”
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