Conte Gives Reasons For Omitting Marcos Alonso in Chelsea’s 3-0 win over West Brom

As reported by dailypostng Conte said the Spaniard suffered a fresh injury blow in training which has ruled him out of Chelsea’s Premier League clash against West Brom.

Conte told Sky Sports: “Alonso in training on Saturday twisted his ankle. He has this injury and for this reason today he is not playing.

“And then as you know very well, a lot of times I change Gary [Cahill] for [Antonio] Rudiger and I think the defenders we have give us different options to pick the best solution, and in this case, I decided to take this decision.”

“If you remember on Friday during the press conference I said I didn’t know, I was really worried about his physical condition.

“I didn’t know if he needed one day, one month or a long time to recover.

“Then on Saturday I tried to persuade him to stay with us and have the training session with us and he trained with us on Saturday and yesterday. And now I think it is right to come on the bench and then if there is the necessity or the opportunity to play for 20 minutes.”