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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Doube Gameweek 26 [Thursday]

🇦🇷 Leeds

📢 Marcelo Bielsa: "[Mateusz] Klich is doing pretty well but I don’t know yet [if he can play]. Rodrigo and Kalvin Phillips won’t be available this weekend."

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📢 Bielsa on Phillips: "His injury is in his calf. It's a place where we have to avoid he has a recurrence, because the recurrence makes the situation worse.

"We're being very cautious so when he returns, he returns for definite."

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📢 Bielsa on Robin Koch's potential return to training: "I suppose he will be back with us in the first week of March. I have a thought he’s going to be back with the same type of power and performance as he had prior to his injury."

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🫐 Everton

📢 Carlo Ancelotti: "Allan and Dominic [Calvert-Lewin] are okay. They are training regularly. They are available to play, for sure, from the beginning.

"Jean-Philippe Gbamin is progressing well. We don’t know exactly..."

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📢 Ancelotti: "...when he [Gbamin] can come back to train with the team – the same with Yerry Mina, also.

"I think Yerry will be out for at least two more weeks."

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📢 Ancelotti on Josh King: "[He] is not far away and he plays a part in games. It's important for him to stay fit, his condition is good and he is working and adapting really well.

"He will find a place in the first XI in some games."

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📢 Ancelotti on Richarlison: "He is a lot better, he's a better player than was in the first part of the season. Now he's working with consistency, he's focused. He can easily reach more goals this season."

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📢 Ancelotti on Jordan Pickford: "It's true, the fact [Robin] Olsen is there can help make him more motivated, focused.

"I think it helps that we rotate. I'm going to continue rotating the goalkeepers until the end of this season."

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🌞 Brighton

📢 Graham Potter on Tariq Lamptey: "He’s trained again today, he had no problems after the training session; he’s had a good week.

"We need to see how he reacts tomorrow but there’s a good chance that he will be..."

#fpl #dgw26 #CHpressers #gw26 #bhafc #WbaBha

📢 Potter on Lamptey: "...in the squad. There’s a chance for him to be included in the group, which is good news."

On other injuries: "Adam Webster is the only one that is going to be a bit longer than we thought. As we’ve got..."

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📢 Potter on Webster: "...more to grips with the injury itself, we’re looking at after the international break for his return. That’s a bit disappointing for us but apart from that, we’ve got no other problems."

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📢 Potter asked if March could return this season: "It’s doubtful. When you’re in the early stages you’re just trying to set a target that is safe. You never know but the reality is, I would be surprised if Solly is back this season."

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📢 Potter on Joel Veltman: "He’s been fantastic for us in a lot of positions. He has played a little bit further advanced then we would have wanted him to. He’s an intelligent guy who knows the game. He makes really good decisions."

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🛍️ West Brom

📢 Sam Allardyce on Robert Snodgrass: "The issue he had with his knee ultimately covered up a slightly bigger issue in his calf. He’s got a slight tear.

“If I send him out on Saturday against Brighton and that..."

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📢 Allardyce: "...calf tears more than it is now, then I would be kicking myself. Robert Snodgrass wants to play but I have taken the decision [to leave him out] to make sure he is ready for Everton on Thursday."

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🏮 Man Utd [pre-#UEL]

📢 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on naming a strong side which includes Bruno Fernandes: "To represent this great club you want to put a strong team out that will represent us the right way.

"[We] want to build some more..."

#fpl #dgw26 #CHpressers #gw26 #mufc

📢 Solskjaer on naming a strong side which includes Bruno Fernandes: "...momentum, belief, confidence and you only do that by performing well."

On Dean Henderson: "He’s maturing, he’s getting more and more games."

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🦊 Leicester City

📢 Brendan Rodgers post-#UEL on James Maddison's hip injury: "We’ve got no timeline on it.

"It’s going to be one of those where he doesn’t need anything surgically, it’s just going to be about once the pain dies..."

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📢 Rodgers on Maddison's hip injury: "...down. I can’t put a timeline on it. It’s going to be about how he feels. We’re just going to have to assess that each day."

On using Tielemans further forward: "Youri’s clearly better..."

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📢 Rodgers on using Tielemans further forward: "...when he’s deeper, as he allows us to link the game from the midfield through to the front players.

"I was trying to get a creative player in that forward position to feed the..."

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📢 Rodgers on using Tielemans further forward: "...front players, in particular Jamie [Vardy]."

On Slavia Prague defeat: "It's my responsibility. I pick the team to try to get the result and that clearly didn’t work as well..."

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📢 Rodgers on Slavia Prague defeat: "...as I would have liked. We’ve changed the team often enough because we've carried injuries all year, so we've had to be able to do that. The players returning from injury..."

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📢 Rodgers on Slavia Prague defeat: "...especially Ricardo [Pereira] and Barnesy [Harvey Barnes], they’ve been playing non-stop. We had to find a way to freshen up the team.

"It's my responsibility. I pick the team, the set-up."

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📢 Rodgers on Europa League: "The tournament has been a really good experience for us. The timing of it, with everything we've had with injuries, wasn't ideal.

“We'll push now in the final two competitions we're in. If we had..."

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📢 Rodgers on Europa League: "...to prioritise, those would be the two competitions we'd want to succeed in.

"The Europa League was one we wanted to do well in, it wasn't to be. Now we can go all in in the league and the FA Cup."

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🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta post-#UEL on Bukayo Saka: "It is [nerves of steel] and as well because he’s really fatigued. He’s played a lot of minutes and he hasn’t had much rest.

"We asked him to go again and produce this moment..."

#fpl #dgw26 #CHpressers #gw26 #afc #LeiArs

📢 Arteta on Saka: "...and the boy has done it, against a really difficult formation with the way they were so deep and there were very small spaces. But he’s found a way to do it again."

#fpl #dgw26 #CHpressers #gw26 #afc #LeiArs #UEL #fantasypl

📢 Arteta on Kieran Tierney: "The way he has come back from his injury and how willing he is to try to help the team, it gives us a big lift."

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