Bench role for more key matches may signal the beginning of the end for John Terry at Chelsea
John Terry is expected to return to the Chelsea first team to face Liverpool on Sunday. His anticipated restoration to the centre of defence will come just four days after he was omitted from Wednesday’s Champions League victory over Shakhtar Donetsk, but doubts about his status at the club may not be dispelled so quickly.
Roberto Di Matteo, the Chelsea manager, maintains Terry was omitted from the team’s most important game of the season because of a lack of match fitness, having played just once in a month following of his four-match ban for racial abuse.