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Burnley will be without a key player for their clash with Chelsea on Saturday.
Burnley will be without a key player for their clash with Chelsea on Saturday. The Clarets are effectively doomed as far as survival is concerned, already nine points from safety and with time beginning to run out.
Scott Parker’s men are going to need an astonishing turnaround to secure survival, and it does not look likely. Chelsea go into this one just one point off the top four and looking to bounce back from a draw with Leeds United in their last Premier League outing.
These are the sorts of games Chelsea simply must take care of if they are to secure Champions League football for another season, especially being at home. And to perhaps make things a little easier, Burnley will be without former Blues striker Armando Broja, who has been ruled out by Parker.
“He won't make the weekend,” Parker confirmed, as detailed by the Burnley Express. “To be fair, he's picked up a little bit of an issue which has been ongoing for a few weeks now and we've had to intervene a little bit.
“He shouldn't be too long, hopefully a couple of weeks from now, but certainly this weekend he won't be available to play in that game.”
Elsewhere, Burnley remain without Connor Roberts and Zeki Amdouni and Mike Trosor. “Connor is more long term,” Parker added. “I don't see him being available in the coming weeks/months really. Zeki, we’re beginning to integrate him a little bit with us, so he’s not too far away.
“I don't know how far away in terms of actually match ready, but he's definitely progressing in the right way and there's been no setback so touch wood, he's heading in the right direction. Mikey as well, he's probably a little bit closer on the grass and picking up his work now. He’s had some injections in the issue that he had in his ankle and that seems to have settled down. So again, I think it'll be a few weeks from now.”
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