Blackpool missing key players

Blackpool will be without their top-scorer DJ Campbell and captain Charlie Adam for Monday’s Premier League clash with Chelsea at Bloomfield Road.

Campbell begins a three-match suspension after he was sent off in the 4-0 defeat at Wolves last Saturday, while Adam serves the second of his two-game ban for picking up 10 yellow cards this season.

Defender Stephen Crainey, who has not made a first-team appearance since January 22 due to an ankle injury, is in line to return against the Blues and midfielder Elliot Grandin, absent for the last two games with a hamstring problem, has an outside chance of being involved.

However, the match will come too soon for Gary Taylor-Fletcher (hamstring) and Matt Gilks (knee).

Provisional squad: Kingson, Crainey, Southern, Eardley, Cathcart, Evatt, Phillips, Vaughan, Varney, Sylvestre, Beattie, Reid, Puncheon, Ormerod, Baptiste, Carney, Halstead, Kornilenko.