Hello and welcome to straight out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic.

Every week we get together to discuss all the latest news and notes out of SW6, all in the company of the

Athletics Chelsea experts. On this episode, we'll round up the international action involving

Chelsea players, talk Reese James, discuss the women's teams draw with Arsenal, look ahead

to Newcastle and answer your questions. Available for free, wherever you get your podcasts

and add free on the Athletic. This is straight out to Cobham. Yes, hello, listener. Matt Davis-Adams here to talk you through another week in the life of Chelsea Football Club. I'm joined by two of my regular Chelsea chums. Liam Toomey is here. Hi, Liam. Hello, I'm not very impressed to see that Simon's pulled the classic international break trick of, oh, I've got a bit of a groin strain. I can't make it this week. Yeah, Simon is on holiday, but Dominic Fyfield is on board. Hi, Dom. Hey, Matt, how you doing? Later, we'll catch up with the athletics, Adam Crafton, who will be talking us through his recent meeting with Reese James. First, though, international news.

A busy break for the boys in blue and other colours, depending on their national team.

Still more games to come as we record, brackets, why close brackets.

But here's what's happened over the past weekend.

Ben Chilwell went off injured in England's defeat away to Belgium,

a game which Mason Mount also started.

Here's Ers on Twitter asking any early indications on the Chillwell injury.

Such a shame to lose him while he's in such fine form.

Liam, it looked like a back problem.

I haven't got a medical degree.

He'll be shocked to learn, but that might mean that he's not out for too long,

hopefully? Yeah, it's a difficult one because I think even within football medical circles,

back injuries are particularly difficult to pin down in terms of the severity. So we don't know yet how serious it is. Garret Southgate clearly didn't know when he talked about it after the game.

But I think Chelsea will be very, very keen to get him back, get a look at him and ascertain just how long he will be out for.

Because I would argue he might even have been Chelsea's best player since he came into the team.

And it's a mark of how important he's become

already that I think Frank Lampard was very loath to rotate him out. I mean, he was brought off in

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