Chelsea are rocked by an injury to England ace.CHELSEA have been rocked by an injury to England left-back Ashley Cole Ashley Cole (born 20 December 1980, Stepney, London) is an English footballer of Barbadian descent. Cole plays left back for Chelsea and for the England national team, a position from which he often uses his strong pace to try and support the forward players. which threatens to keep him out of action for weeks. Cole has been diagnosed with a depressed fracture Noun 1. depressed fracture - fracture of the skull where the bone is pushed in fracture, break - breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" of the tibia tibia: see leg. after aggravating ag·gra·vate tr.v. ag·gra·vat·ed, ag·gra·vat·ing, ag·gra·vates 1. To make worse or more troublesome. 2. To rouse to exasperation or anger; provoke. See Synonyms at annoy. the problem prior to Sunday's 1-0 home victory over Manchester United. The defender missed three games after initially sustaining the injury in the Blues' 4-0 home win against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last month. He returned against Madrid in the return Group D game last week but required a painkilling injection in order to play against United. A Chelsea spokesman said: "Ashley has further injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. it during the game and has therefore been ruled out of this week's England squad." Meanwhile, John Terry has warned Chelsea's title rivals they do not intend to merely sit on their five-point lead at the top of the Barclays Premier League. The Blues led from the front when they clinched their last two titles in 2005 and 2006 and the England captain For information about the captains of England sports teams see the articles on the sports team in question. For example:
Terry's 76th-minute header gave Carlo Ancelotti's side a five-point margin over Arsenal at the top of the table and Terry declared: "We're not going to settle for a five-point gap, we want to increase that lead. "It's encouraging that we won both our titles leading from the front. That's in the back of our minds and it could be key for us. Fingers crossed we can do the same again. "We have already won more games against the other teams in the 'Big Four' than we did last season and that gives us confidence. It's a good psychological lift for us because it's where we lost it last year. "Arsenal are looking good at the moment. They are free-flowing and scoring goals like they always do but when they pick up injuries they tend to miss some key players." |
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