Chelsea 1-1 Borussia Dortmund: Mauricio Pochettino hopes Christopher Nkunku injury is not "big issue"

Christopher Nkunku scored 23 goals successful 38 games successful each competitions for RB Leipzig past season

Boss Mauricio Pochettino hopes an wounded suffered by striker Christopher Nkunku is not a "big issue" arsenic Chelsea drew 1-1 with Borussia Dortmund to extremity their pre-season US circuit undefeated.

£52m signing Nkunku, 25, went disconnected successful the 22nd infinitesimal aft appearing to injure his genu erstwhile helium was tackled.

The transportation astatine Chicago's Soldier Field was successful mediocre condition.

Areas were patchy and worn aft the stadium, location to the NFL's Chicago Bears, was utilized for an Ed Sheeran performance attended by 73,000 radical past weekend.

"The doctors are checking him," explained Pochettino, who felt the tackle which forced Nkunku disconnected "maybe" should person resulted successful a penalty.

"He had the accidental to people but helium feels thing successful his knee.

"Hopefully it is not a large contented and that helium tin beryllium speedy with the team. We request a fewer days to measure him and until we get backmost to London it is hard to know.

"Always we instrumentality immoderate risks due to the fact that the transportation is not cleanable arsenic they are utilizing it for antithetic sports and that is sometimes the hazard of the tour.

"I deliberation it was a spot unlucky successful the concern but we cannot kick astir the transportation and to blasted the transportation for wherefore helium suffered the injury. For me, it was atrocious luck."

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Chelsea had the champion chances of the archetypal fractional erstwhile Nicolas Jackson had a changeable saved by Alexander Meyer aft Nkunku was taken down successful the area.

Levi Colwill should person scored erstwhile Thiago Silva flicked the shot crossed the look of extremity from a Ben Chilwell pass, but helium changeable implicit the barroom from wrong the six-yard-box.

Chelsea started the 2nd fractional good and Jackson fired implicit aft moving onto a bouncing shot implicit the apical of the Dortmund defence, earlier Carney Chukwuemeka had a changeable blocked connected the enactment aft bully enactment from Raheem Sterling and Jackson.

Dortmund took the pb successful the 80th infinitesimal erstwhile Wolf scored from adjacent range, turning successful Samuel Bamba's shot.

Chelsea past drew level erstwhile Burstow headed successful from wrong the six-yard container aft Enzo Fernandez headed a Mykhailo Mudryk escaped footwear to the teenage striker.

The Blues statesman their Premier League run against Liverpool astatine Stamford Bridge adjacent Sunday, 13 August.

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