Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has taken one look at Chelsea’s injury list and said -“Let’s see your teamsheet first.”

Chelsea go into Saturday’s Stamford Bridge clash with doubts surrounding key players Ashley Cole, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Michael Ballack and Didier Drogba.

Cole has a stress fracture and initially wasn’t expected to be fit until the visit of Arsenal at the end of the month.

But conflicting reports say the England left-back will be OK for the weekend, when Drogba was also supposed to be making his comeback until a rib injury surfaced on international duty.

Terry (ankle) and Ballack (infected knee) have slight knocks that kept them from playing international friendlies, while Cole and Terry returned to training yesterday.

Lampard (thigh) was originally thought to be out for three weeks after withdrawing from England’s friendly against Brazil last weekend.

McCarthy isn’t getting too excited by the prospect of Chelsea missing some of the key stars.

He said: “I don’t know if Frank Lampard, Michael Ballack or Didier Drogba are fit and until I actually see their teamsheet at 2pm on Saturday, I won’t take any notice.

“I’ve had that before – you hear someone is out and so-and-so is out and someone is struggling then find they’ve got one change to the team.

“There might one or two that people don’t think will play that in the end actually do.”