Thomas Tuchel hopes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can be available sooner than expected – possibly as early as next week – after travelling to Italy to get a protective face mask fitted.
Aubameyang suffered a broken jaw in a terrifying armed robbery at his home in Barcelona and flew out to visit the same specialist former defender Antonio Rudiger used after completing his deadline day move to Chelsea on Thursday night.
Aubameyang was expected to be sidelined for a number of weeks but Tuchel said: ‘We try with a mask. It depends a little bit on what the specialists say who create the mask for him.