Zola doubtful for Chelsea Cup game

Chelsea’s Italian star Gianfranco Zola could miss Sunday’s FA Cup fifth round tie at Stoke – just hours after becoming a father for the third time.

Zola, whose wife Franca gave birth to a 7lbs boy Samuele, in the early hours of this morning, was training alone at the club’s Heathrow headquarters this afternoon in a bid to recover from a thigh injury sustained in last week’s 3-1 Premiership win over Birmingham City.