The talented Blues defender is currently sidelined with a knee injury for his club, so Gareth Southgate has decided not to risk picking him for the winter tournament that starts later this month.
Both Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva took to Twitter to console their teammate on his World Cup absence.
Paul Canoville prediction on Reece James
Former Chelsea player Canoville has shown his support for James by insisting there will be future tournaments for him.
In addition, he’s claimed that the right wing-back is so good that he may grow into one of the world’s elite players.
Canoville posted on Twitter to James: “You’re a magnificent young man and phenomenal footballer. Rest up and come back better than ever. There will be more World Cups to come as, with Chelsea, you become one of the greatest players in world football.”
In fairness, there aren’t many right-backs in the world that have performed as well as James in the past couple of years.
There’s no doubt he keeps growing and growing as a player, so it’s frightening that he’s still only 22.
Hopefully, the Chelsea ace recovers fully during the break and is ready to fire for the Blues when domestic football returns in late-December.
It’s quite alarming just how much this Chelsea XI do miss James when he doesn’t play.
The Blues showed improvement in the midweek defeat to Manchester City in terms of creating chances, something that James is brilliant at.
However, there’s been an alarming lack of clinical edge around the box in recent matches.
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