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N’Golo Kante can be sidelined for “a number of weeks” after struggling a critical hamstring damage, Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel confirmed on Friday.

The 31-year-old midfielder limped out of final weekend’s 2-2 draw towards Tottenham Hotspur after one other superb big-game show got here to an abrupt finish — the most recent setback in a profession more and more blighted by health issues.

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Kante stays an important a part of Tuchel’s squad however he began simply 21 Premier League matches final season amid persistent knee and groin accidents, whereas he additionally contracted COVID-19.

And when requested for the most recent on the France worldwide’s availability, Tuchel stated: “[It is] fairly critical. We’re speaking about weeks. Not excellent news. We’re upset and unhappy as a result of N’Golo was tremendous necessary and tremendous match. He can be out for a number of weeks.”

Chelsea will even be with out striker Armando Broja and Mateo Kovacic towards Leeds, whereas Tuchel is awaiting the end result of an English Soccer Affiliation inquiry to find out whether or not he’ll face a touchline ban after receiving a pink card after the ultimate whistle towards Spurs.

Tuchel and his reverse quantity Antonio Conte have been additionally each charged by the FA with improper behaviour after clashing twice and the Chelsea boss is being investigated for feedback he made concerning referee Anthony Taylor.

Mike Dean, the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) for final Sunday’s recreation towards Tottenham, has subsequently admitted that he ought to have requested Taylor to evaluate Cristian Romero’s hair-pull on Marc Cucurella instantly earlier than the nook which led to Spurs’ stoppage-time equaliser.

N’Golo Kante limped out of Chelsea’s 2-2 draw towards Tottenham Hotspur with the hamstring damage. Visionhaus/Getty Pictures

“I’ve since studied the footage, spoken to different referees and, upon reflection, I ought to have requested Taylor to go to his pitchside monitor to have a look for himself,” Dean stated in a column for The Mail+.

In response, Tuchel stated: “Hopefully I am not too trustworthy but when the error is that massive and that apparent, what is the level of not admitting if the entire world sees it?

“I wrestle just a little bit to be absolutely impressed by the assertion, I’ve to say. It’s so clear and apparent, I nonetheless can’t perceive how a referee can’t decide that was the fitting one.”

Tuchel’s bust-up with Conte led to gamers and employees getting concerned twice, most importantly on the full-time whistle as a handshake between the 2 managers rapidly escalated into an argument.

“It is rather necessary to snicker about ourselves,” Tuchel stated.

“In fact we snicker [about the handshake turning into an internet meme]. I used to be laughing within the dressing room as a result of it was the warmth of the match and it was for me nonetheless not that dangerous, it was a handshake, a bit too lengthy and too heavy handshake I admit it, however no hurt was accomplished, not less than from my facet.

“He spoke Italian to me so I by no means understand how we did not insult one another. The factor would have ended if there weren’t 20 folks round us to make it look a lot worse than it really was. However when you’ve got [a] response like this, you might want to stay with the response in direction of it.”

Supply: espn.co.uk