(Reuters) – Chelsea’s Spanish defenders Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso have resumed training after lacking the final two matches attributable to harm and COVID-19 respectively, the Premier League membership mentioned.

Club captain Azpilicueta suffered an harm in Chelsea’s League Cup defeat by Liverpool. He missed their 3-2 FA Cup win over Luton Town final week and the 4-0 rout of Burnley in the league over the weekend.

Alonso was additionally dominated out of each matches attributable to COVID-19 however the pair have returned to full health and educated on Monday forward of Thursday’s league go to to Norwich City and Sunday’s recreation at dwelling towards Newcastle United.

Chelsea are third in the desk with 53 factors from 26 matches, 10 factors behind second-placed Liverpool and 16 adrift of leaders Manchester City, who each have video games in hand.

(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)