Frank Lampard has confirmed N'Golo Kante will miss Chelsea's Premier League clash with Crystal Palace tomorrow night.
The 29-year-old has struggled with injuries throughout the 2019/20 campaign, however had seemed to have got past his issues since the break.
Kante has been playing in the deeper, holding role in midfield and had been a big part of Chelsea's decent restart to the campaign.
However, the World Cup winner pulled up during the Watford win on Saturday after suffering a hamstring problem.
And Lampard gave the latest injury news on the midfielder ahead of the Palace match tomorrow night.
"Kante won't be in the squad," Lampard said. "Hurt his hamstring. A low-level hamstring, so we're hoping it is a week or so.
"Kovacic trained with us today but not ready for this game. Hopefully the next. And Tomori is still not ready. He had a small setback in training. Hopefully next week.
"We'll play that one as it goes but I would expect we'd be very lucky to have him [Kante] for Sheffield United."
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