Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl has confirmed Kyle Walker-Peters faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
The 23-year-old suffered a thigh injury in the loss to Wolves last weekend and will now miss the next few weeks of action.
"I am still not very happy about what is going on with our injuries," Hasenhuttl said ahead of Saturday's match against Chelsea.
"With Kyle Walker-Peters we have another guy who is definitely out for the game, for a few weeks maybe.
"That hurts us definitely because he was important when we had the good run and played some good games.
"This is the never-ending story of this season. We always have problems with injuries.
"Hopefully there is nobody else coming with injuries - we have Ibra (Diallo), Theo Walcott also (out) so we miss three important players, but we have to trust the players we have."
