Hot on the heels of losing Ashley Cole for the rest of the season, Petr Cech tonight had to be substituted with what appeared to be a pretty serious injury.

It looked innocuous enough as he jumped to catch a harmless ball but immediately on landing, he signalled to the bench with a sort of pulling motion as if something had pulled and snapped.

We probably won’t find out until tomorrow the extent of the injury but it could keep him out for at least four weeks and if it is a serious muscle strain or ligament damage then his absence will be even greater.

Whilst I don’t like to make a big deal about injuries to our rivals, we have had to struggle through a complete nightmare in terms of injuries to our defence for much of this season (and it continues to this day with Rio Ferdinand now apparently injured again) so we’ll now see how Chelsea cope with a John Terry who appears out of sorts and two of their most important defensive players out for a lengthy spell.

Incidentally, Inter Milan beat Chelsea 2-1 tonight and I would have thought Chelsea have enough to turn that around in the return leg.

I certainly hope so. I don’t want to see Chelsea win the Champions League but I do want to see them stay in the competition a little longer than this or they’ll be in a position to give the Premier League their 100% focus and attention which wouldn’t be good news for us.