I could play with Injury : Petr Cech

Petr Cech is willing to play through the pain to ensure Chelsea’s progression in the Europa League.
The Czech Republic international has spoken of his pain during the Blues’ 4-1 win over Wigan Athletic, but is determined to carry on.
The 30 year old broke his finger in the 3-2 defeat to Newcastle United last weekend, and was set for a spell on the sidelines, but told Sky Sports he expects to play against Sparta Prague on Thursday after playing against the Latics at the weekend.

He said: “That I would play [against Wigan] was decided definitely on Friday after the training session.
“I coped normally but felt quite a lot of pain in it. The doctors left the final decision to me. I had a special splinter and bandage for this match. They could not deaden the pain because I need to feel the finger while goalkeeping.”

The Champions League winning goalkeeper felt it was important to keep pressure on Tottenham Hotspur in the race for third, after the Lilywhites secured a 2-1 win over the Magpies and added:
“Naturally, it was painful as it always is if you have something broken. But I could play with it. The important thing is to endure the pain.There were quite a lot of shots but none of them hit me directly in the finger. When I survived this, then I will certainly be playing against Sparta on Thursday, unless something unexpected happens by then.”

Spurs’ early win took them to third in the Premier League and the ‘keeper knew his side needed a response.
He said: “Tottenham played before us and won, so we knew we could not afford a slip-up. We are glad to have won and, moreover, when [Manchester] City lost their match later on, it makes the gap between us and them just four points.
We did not have the best of starts against Wigan but it was possibly caused by having a lot of players away on international duty and some of them returned at the last moment. We got better throughout the match and the first goal helped us a lot.
After the half-time break we added another but then we let them pull one back. Fortunately towards the end we scored two more and that was the main difference between this and our previous games – that we converted our opportunities.”