Enzo Maresca spoke about his plans for two ‘injury prone’ players in the **Chelsea**squad.
The Blues have hoped to get to a position where Romeo Lavia and Reece James can play multiple times a week, and that is an ongoing process for the Belgian midfielder. In the case of the club captain, Maresca feels his job is to assign him responsibilities that reduce the load on his body.
“The main target for Romeo Lavia is to be fit. Don't get any injuries. For me, at this moment, Romeo is where Reece was more or less one year ago in terms of back after a long time. We need to manage him every minute, every day, every second. And the target with him is just to keep him fit.
“So, he's training with us. He's OK. He's 100% fit. But we need to be very careful with him because we don't want him to be out again and finally he can enjoy being a football player.
*“In the Nottingham Forest game, we planned for him 45 minutes. Then Ajax, he played one hour, 70 minutes. The other day against Tottenham, when he was on, he was very good. We are happy with Romeo. We are happy with the way he's progressing. And the only thing we want is to keep him fit. So, I would like to have Romeo inside the pitch always. But it's my duty to try to protect also him.*
“Reece James* is good. He's doing well. He's fit 100%. The way he behaves every game is top. Even when he's not playing, inside the changing room, the way with his teammates. Now, yes, I think he's going to play three games in a week. Also depends on the way we use Reece. We didn't use him up and down. It's a big job for him, for Malo Gusto, for any full-back to continue to do up and down.*
“We use the full-back in a different way. Probably we also protect and save him in the way we try to play. I think he's ready to play three games in a week.”