The Colombian striker will sit out tomorrow's visit of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Group G, but is expected to miss just one game and should return against Arsenal in the Premier League Saturday lunchtime.

One boost for under-pressure Jose Mourinho is the return of Brazilian playmaker Oscar, who hasn't played since the opening day of the season over a month ago because of a knee injury.

Defending Premier League champions Chelsea are yet to win at home this season and have won just one of their five Premier League matches to lie 17th in the table, 11 points behind red-hot Manchester City.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Liverpool	19	14	4	1	47	19	28	46
2	Arsenal	20	11	7	2	39	18	21	40
3	Nottingham Forest Nott'm Forest	20	12	4	4	29	19	10	40
4	Chelsea	20	10	6	4	39	24	15	36
5	Newcastle United Newcastle	20	10	5	5	34	22	12	35
6	Manchester City Man City	20	10	4	6	36	27	9	34
7	Bournemouth	20	9	6	5	30	23	7	33
8	Aston Villa	20	9	5	6	30	32	-2	32
9	Fulham	20	7	9	4	30	27	3	30
10	Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton	20	6	10	4	30	29	1	28
11	Brentford	20	8	3	9	38	35	3	27
12	Tottenham Hotspur Spurs	20	7	3	10	42	30	12	24
13	Manchester United Man Utd	20	6	5	9	23	28	-5	23
14	West Ham United West Ham	20	6	5	9	24	39	-15	23
15	Crystal Palace	20	4	9	7	21	28	-7	21
16	Everton	19	3	8	8	15	25	-10	17
17	Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves	20	4	4	12	31	45	-14	16
18	Ipswich Town Ipswich	20	3	7	10	20	35	-15	16
19	Leicester City Leicester	20	3	5	12	23	44	-21	14
20	Southampton	20	1	3	16	12	44	-32	6