Liam Delap was subbed off in the first half against Bournemouth (Picture: Getty)<\/p>\n
Chelsea striker Liam Delap is reportedly set for another lengthy spell on the sidelines after he picked up a shoulder injury in the 0-0 draw with Bournemouth.<\/p>\n
Delap was handed his second successive Premier League start on Saturday as Enzo Maresca\u2019s side travelled to the south coast… Liam Delap was subbed off in the first half against Bournemouth (Picture: Getty) Chelsea striker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207771-chelsea-handed-latest-injury-blow-as-liam-delap-return-timeline-revealed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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