Mauricio Pochettino discusses options against Wolverhampton after Armando Broja left for Fulham

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Chelsea’s head coach Mauricio Pochettino prepares to deploy his boys against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday, but must do without Armando Broja who is currently loaned to Fulham.

Among the things he talked about during his recent interview was that both Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku were available for assessment ahead of the match.

‘It’s a very good thing for Armando to have the opportunity to maybe play more,’ Pochettino said to chelseafc.com. ‘It’s a good move for him and I hope that he can take the opportunity.

‘It’s important for us to recover Christoph and today Nico arrived back with us.

‘Also, sometimes people forget but Deivid Washington is here with us. I think the options we have up front are enough.’

Senegalese Nicolas Jackson whose country is knocked out of the ongoing AFCON competition has arrived at Chelsea to continue from where he left off.

‘We need to assess Nico, today was his first training session with us,’ Pochettino said. ‘He didn’t play too much but was away for one month.

‘That is why we have to assess him very well and not take any risks. But for sure he will be involved in the squad for Sunday if nothing happens tomorrow.’

Finally, Christopher Nkunku who successfully returned from injury might play in the first half on Sunday.

‘It’s good to see him but also we need to anticipate things,’ Pochettino said about him. ‘45 minutes was good, we wanted to work a little bit more after the game but he can’t. He didn’t because I think 45 minutes was enough for him and we need to analyse and assess him, to see if he can start the next game.

‘That is all the circumstances, sometimes when we see the result of things we need to put it into context. I hope that he can cope with the demands of the game and he can play more than only 45 minutes.

‘We need to keep working with him. After six or seven months always it is difficult for a player, but he is starting to show what he can do after playing 45 minutes. We can see he had one chance and he was capable to score a great goal and show his quality.

‘We need take care of his situation, build his confidence and fitness step by step. He needs to work really hard to get to his best. Of course we’re happy with the way that he is helping the team now but we need to be careful in the way we are going to push him to get fit in the way that we expect.’

The Blues’ were beaten in their last match, but would like to win this one.