Ben Chilwell has become the latest World Cup doubt after he suffered a hamstring injury during Chelsea’s Champions League group game against Dinamo Zagreb on Wednesday.
The England left-back pulled up clutching his left hamstring in the closing stages of Chelsea’s 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge and was forced to leave the pitch with the help of two of the London club’s medical staff.
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And as he left the pitch, television cameras caught Chilwell telling his Chelsea and England teammate Mason Mount that his hamstring had ‘popped’.
When asked about the severity of Chilwell’s injury, Chelsea head coach Graham Potter said: “It doesn’t look positive. ‘It’s a hamstring. We will have to scan it and see how it is.
“It’s a blow for us on an otherwise positive evening I think. It’s a blow to see him pull up like that, it’s not a great sight.
“So fingers crossed when we get the scan it isn’t bad, it can be not severe, but we have to have fingers crossed at the moment. But clearly we’re disappointed.”
Chilwell is now a huge doubt to be fit for the start of England’s World Cup campaign, which starts with their first game in Group B against Iran on November 21.
Earlier on Wednesday, Tottenham confirmed that Heung-Min Son will undergo surgery on a fracture around his eye, putting his hopes of playing at the World Cup with South Korea in jeopardy.
Liverpool’s Diogo Jota has already been ruled out of Portugal’s World Cup campaign with a calf injury, while Manchester United defender Raphael Varane is also attempting to overcome a hamstring issue in order to make France’s squad. They are already without Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kante.
