Captain in hospital after being kicked in the head

Chelsea skipper Cesar Azpilicueta was acceptable to enactment successful infirmary overnight aft being kicked successful the caput successful the English Premier League.

Chelsea manager Graham Potter said helium expected the Spaniard to stay successful infirmary for astatine slightest 24 hours aft helium was deed successful the look by an attempted overhead footwear by Southampton hostile Sékou Mara successful the 74th minute.

Azpilicueta was taken disconnected connected a stretcher wearing a cervix brace and breathing from an oxygen disguise aft a 10-minute stoppage.

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“Thankfully he’s conscious,” Potter said.

Chelsea's Cesar Azpilicueta is stretchered disconnected during the Premier League lucifer astatine Stamford Bridge, London. (Photo by Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images) (PA Images via Getty Images)

“He’s successful hospital. He spoke to his wife, I believe.

"So we’re conscionable evidently monitoring and precise acrophobic for him. It was not a bully happening to see.”

The 33-year-old Azpilicueta joined Chelsea successful 2012 and has helped the nine triumph 2 Premier League titles and the Champions League successful 2021.

He was named skipper successful 2019.

Chelsea mislaid to Southampton 1-0.

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