Sam Kerr: blow for Chelsea and Australia as striker suffers ACL injury in training

“Sam will be assessed by a specialist in the coming days and then begin her rehabilitation with the club’s medical team,” the club said in a statement.

INJURY BLOW: Chelsea striker Sam Kerr has sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury during a warm-weather training camp in Morocco. Photo credit: Zac Goodwin/PA Wire.

Chelsea’s Australian forward Sam Kerr has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury at the side’s warm-weather training camp in Morocco, the Women’s Super League club announced on Sunday.

Kerr averaged nearly 30 goals in the previous three seasons for Chelsea, who are top of the WSL table with a three-point lead over Manchester City.