Chelsea frustrated as Guss Hiddink confirms another injury blow for West Brom game

CHELSEA will be without Eden Hazard for Wednesday's clash with West Brom, manager Guus Hiddink has confirmed.

 

Eden Hazard will miss Chelsea's clash with West Brom on Wednesday

 

Hazard, 24, missed the Blues' 2-0 FA Cup third-round win over Scunthorpe today after hobbling off during their clash with Crystal Palace last weekend.

“We want to be cautious with Eden. We don’t want him to fall again with muscle problems,” Hiddink explained.

“I want to be careful with him so that he doesn’t start too early. It will maybe be a week later (than necessary) rather than too early.”

 

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Hiddink also revealed that Diego Costa is "doubtful" to face West Brom.

Costa scored the opener against Scunthorpe before Ruben Loftus-Cheek secured the victory with a neat finish.

But Spain international Costa couldn't finish the game as he hobbled off with four minutes remaining.

 

Discussing the game, Scunthorpe boss Mark Robins said: "Chelsea made it very difficult for us and early on we gave the ball away too much but after that I thought we were good.

"It is a nailed-on penalty and you come to places like this and you want to get the decisions, but sometimes you don't

"We had opportunities to score but unfortunately Loftus-Cheek managed to get into the penalty area and made a decent contact on it for 2-0."