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Liam Delap injury latest as expert explains return plans for Chelsea star

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Delap was forced off last weekend against Bournemouth (Picture: Getty Images)

Liam Delap is facing another spell on the sidelines but Chelsea can be hopeful of having their striker available again early in the New Year.

The former Ipswich Town star started against Bournemouth last Saturday, fighting tooth and nail with Cherries defender Marcos Senesi until injury struck.

After one feisty exchange between the two, Senesi landed awkwardly on Delap leaving the striker in real pain. The 22-year-old was left clutching his right shoulder as he left the pitch after 31 minutes, replaced by Marc Guiu.

It is the second time Delap has been sidelined since his switch from Ipswich Town. The striker missed 10 games with a hamstring injury earlier in the campaign, starting four of Chelsea’s five Premier League matches since his return having also served a suspension.

His absence leaves Chelsea short up top with Joao Pedro, without a goal in his last five games, and Guiu now Maresca’s alternative options.

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Delap will miss a crucial run of games over the festive period but Stephen Smith, CEO and founder of Kitman Labs which specialises in injury welfare, suggests an injury such as his should not be regarded as a long-term blow.

‘It is difficult to determine the severity without being to assess it. But we can hypnotise it is an AC (acromioclavicular) injury based on how it happened,’ Smith told Metro.

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Delap was sidelined with a hamstring injury earlier in the season (Picture: Getty Images)

‘He landed down heavily, his arm was down underneath him and he was compressed as the other player came down on him. So it is most likely an AC sprain. It doesn’t appear to be anything broken.

‘Typically if it’s a mild sprain it is a week to two weeks. If it is a grade 2 it can be three to six weeks and if it is worse than that, a grade three, you can be looking at six to 12 weeks.  Most recent research on UEFA athletes showed the average time loss to be a month on average.’

Delap is one of the most robust strikers in the English top flight, offering the physicality up front that is sometimes lacking when Joao Pedro leads the line for Chelsea.

While his absence will be a blow, Chelsea will have no concerns of Delap having to curb some of that fight when he returns to action.

‘Of all the types of injuries that can happen, this is probably on the spectrum of the things teams are least concerned about when a player returns, compared to if it was a knee, an ankle, hamstring, a calf or anything else,’ Smith said. ‘They will be looking after it, but it won’t be a big concern.

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Delap is expected to be out for the rest of the year (Picture: Getty Images)

‘They will still be doing a lot of treatment on it, it is still a ligament issue. So if it gets overstretched or he gets another belt on it while he is going through the rehab process it could set it back.

‘So they will be doing a lot of con-contact work with him, but he’ll still be able to do a tonne of ball work with him and fitness work so it is something they should be able to manage.’

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Pompeii site frozen in time uncovers Roman construction secrets

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The ancient Romans have made some substantial contributions to history – and researchers are still uncovering more. Now, they have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, providing an unprecedented insight into the durable, ‘self-healing’ concrete that revolutionised Roman architecture. Another reason why it is so exciting is because it shows a building project abruptly halted by the volcanic catastrophe. (Picture: Archaeological Park of Pompeii)
The researchers found rooms with unfinished walls, alongside piles of premixed dry materials and tools for weighing and measuring, all laid out for concrete preparation. Roman concrete was an indispensable material, enabling the construction of monumental structures such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon, public baths, aqueducts and bridges, which were all feats of engineering unparalleled at the time. (Picture: Getty)
Lead author Professor Admir Masic said: ‘There is the historic importance of this material, and then there is the scientific and technological importance of understanding it. This material can heal itself over thousands of years, it is reactive, and it is highly dynamic. It has survived earthquakes and volcanoes. It has endured under the sea and survived degradation from the elements. We don’t want to completely copy Roman concrete today. We just want to translate a few sentences from this book of knowledge into our modern construction practices.’ (Picture: Vaserman, E., Weaver, J.C., Hayhow, C. et al.)
The exact methods the Romans used have been long debated, and recent archaeological findings often challenge accounts from the 1st-century BC work by architect Vitruvius. But the new discovery shows the Romans used a technique called ‘hot mixing’ in which a material called quicklime- dry limestone that was previously heated – is combined directly with water and a blend of volcanic rock and ash, producing a chemical reaction that naturally heats the mixture. (Picture: Vaserman, E., Weaver, J.C., Hayhow, C. et al.)
Professor Masic said: ‘Pompeii preserves buildings, materials and even work in progress in the precise state they were in when the eruption occurred. Unlike finished structures that have undergone centuries of repair or weathering, this site captures construction processes as they happened. For studying ancient technologies, there is simply no parallel, its exceptional preservation offers a true ‘snapshot’ of Roman building practice in action.’ (Picture: Vaserman, E., Weaver, J.C., Hayhow, C. et al.)
POMEPI, CAMPANIA, ITALY - 2025/01/17: A view of the large bath complex, inside a private house, annexed to a banquet hall, that emerged in the excavation site underway in insula 10 of Regio IX in Pompeii. The complex is among the largest and most articulated private baths known so far in the Pompeian domus in the light. Few other examples of this size can be found in Pompeii, including the baths of the Praedia di Giulia Felice, those of the Casa del Labirinto and the Villa di Diomede. (Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The building that was being constructed had domestic rooms with a working bakery with ovens, grain-washing basins and storage. The evidence indicated that the technique outlined by Vitruvius, known as slaked lime, was not used for building walls. The hot-mixing technique contributed to the self-healing properties of the concrete, chemically repairing cracks through the white remnants of the lime used to make it, called ‘lime clasts’, which can dissolve and recrystallise, healing cracks that may form with the infiltration of water. (Picture: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NAPLES, ITALY - MAY 29: Maintenance workers cover the main finds with tarpaulins to shelter them from the rain after the press preview of the new excavation area of Regio XI at the Pompeii Archaeological Park in Naples, Italy on May 29, 2023. The new excavation area of Regio IX a hitherto unexplored area, as part of the protection and maintenance project for the excavations of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, the first finds from the eruption of 79 AD have emerged. (Photo by Silvia Bazzicalupo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Professor Masic said that when he first entered the Pompeii site and inspected the perfectly preserved work area, tears came to his eyes. He said: ‘I expected to see Roman workers walking between the piles with their tools. It was so vivid, you felt like you were transported in time. So yes, I got emotional looking at a pile of dirt. The archaeologists made some jokes.’ (Picture: Silvia Bazzicalupo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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