The latest injury and availability update from fitness guru Ben Dinnery
Barclays Player of the Month Diego Costa is hoping to be fit to face the Barclays Manager of the Month as Swansea travel to Stamford Bridge – the Spanish international is the only doubt after a scan identified a muscular problem which prompted his early departure against France last week. Jose Mourinho remains cautiously “optimistic” while the inform striker was given every chance to prove himself in a late training session on Friday – providing he suffers no adverse reaction Costa will be included with the squad along with deadline day signing Loic Remy. Eden Hazard has recovered from the minor issue which stopped him travelling with Belgium during the break.
Swansea have no fresh injury concerns with all eleven players returning from international duty unscathed although Wilfried Bony will need to be checked after he featured on Wednesday in Cameroon for the Ivory Coast. Garry Monk is hoping Leon Britton is on the road to recovery - a scan this week indicated "he will continue what he is doing for a couple of weeks then we will build him up in the third week, we're probably looking at 4/5 weeks before he comes back playing." Marvin Emnes has returned to full training & the Dutch forward is said to be “very close.”
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