Martinez breaks jaw in Chelsea win at Everton
The jaw is the one bone you don't think about until it's gone, and for a goalkeeper it's practically a shield. Martinez tangled with Branthwaite and the bone gave way, yet he's framing it as a small detour. I find the "back in a few weeks" part more interesting than the break itself. A fractured jaw usually means wired teeth, liquid meals, and weeks of silence, but he talks about it like a minor dent in the car.
I'd want to know whether he finished the match after the impact, because keepers do that all the time. The adrenaline masks the damage, and the real ache shows up later in the dressing room. The harder question is how a keeper relearns to dive when the memory of that hit is still fresh in his head. The bone heals faster than the instinct.
A few weeks sounds optimistic to me, and I suspect the club is quietly adding a cushion to that timeline. Either way, it's a reminder that the most exposed player on the pitch is the one who deliberately puts his face in the ball's path.