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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Blank Gameweek 33 [Thursday]

🫐 Everton

📢 Carlo Ancelotti: "We have a lot of players available – almost all the squad, apart from [Abdoulaye] Doucoure and [JP] Gbamin who are out..."

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📢 Ancelotti: "...the others [including Dominic Calvert-Lewin] are in good condition.

"We are ready to fight for this final part of the season. The squad is now much, much better and I have a lot of options."

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🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta on five players [David Luiz, Tierney, Odegaard, Aubameyang, Lacazette] being out: "Yes, it is unfortunately the situation we have at the moment. They are all doing really well to be fair..."

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📢 Arteta on five players [David Luiz, Tierney, Odegaard, Aubameyang, Lacazette] being out: "...they are a little bit ahead of schedule. We don’t expect them for Everton I think.

"We have a doubt with Martin a little bit..."

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📢 Arteta on five players [David Luiz, Tierney, Odegaard, Aubameyang, Lacazette] being out: "...let’s see how [Martin] is today in training.

"The rest will be out and get them back in the team as quick as possible."

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📢 Arteta: "We need to win every game now in the Premier League to give us the best possible chance to be in Europe next season through that competition."

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📢 Arteta asked if #UEL semi-final is in the back of his mind: "No, I want to focus on Everton. We still have more than five days to prepare [for Villareal] and how we get on there will depend on how we do against Everton..."

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📢 Arteta asked if #UEL semi-final is in the back of his mind: "...and that is the only focus today for the team."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Roy Hodgson: "We’ve got a lot of players back, which is good news. Jeffrey Schlupp is training with us again, as is Mamadou Sakho – even James Tomkins is out there training..."

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📢 Hodgson: "...so in fact, this is as big a group as we’ve had training for a long time.

"Connor Wickham is out on the training field but not training with the squad and that also applies to Nathan Ferguson."

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📢 Hodgson: "We’re still missing James McArthur, who has not been training.

"Gary Cahill has not trained for the last two or three days. He’s nursing a minor problem but we’re hoping he can recover from that by the time..."

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📢 Hodgson: "...that Monday comes around."

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🗡️ Sheffield United

📢 Paul Heckingbottom on Berge: "He's making strides everyday. I anticipate we'll see Sander before the end of the season. We know he'll be behind in game time but he’s working towards that."

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🌞 Brighton

📢 Graham Potter on team news: "Everybody came through the [Chelsea] game ok, we’re still in the recovery process.

"There’s still a couple of lads that we need to be careful of; Adam Webster and Dan Burn..."

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📢 Potter on team news: "...haven’t played for a while [and] to a certain extent Danny Welbeck but apart from that, we’re fine.

"Percy Tau has been recovering from a tight hamstring so that’s why he wasn’t in the group..."

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📢 Potter on team news: "...on Tuesday night. But he [Tau] has trained with the team this morning. The longer-term ones are still unavailable."

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📢 Potter asked about the return of Burn: "To have both [Dan and Adam Webster] back; we’ve been a little bit light while those two have been unavailable.

"We’ve managed with the three we’ve had with Joel [Veltman]..."

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📢 Potter asked about the return of Burn: "...Dunky [Lewis Dunk], and Ben [White]. But if you get any injuries or suspensions, you’re down to just the two.

"It’s good to have them [Burn and Webster] back, we have to..."

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📢 Potter on Burn and Webster: "...be careful with them in terms of making sure they have recovered.

"But on and off the pitch they’re important for us, because of their personalities and their characters..."

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📢 Potter on Burn and Webster: "...they have their attributes on the pitch as well which are useful."

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers pre-match on Pereira: "I'm very conscious that Ricardo is coming back from a long-term injury, so he is not ready yet to play three games in a week."

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📢 Rodgers pre-match on Maddison: "It's a chance to get James Maddison up to speed."

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📢 Rodgers post-match to BBC: "We weren't as good as you are probably making us out to be. First half I wasn't happy at all. We weren't precise enough with our passing [but] second half we controlled the game."

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📢 Rodgers to BBC on Iheanacho: "There is no doubt Kelechi is scoring and looks like he can score every game.

"There are areas of the game he can improve - like not losing the ball - but we are so pleased for him..."

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📢 Rodgers to BBC on Iheanacho: "...because he is working really hard."

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📢 Rodgers to BT on strikers: "Jamie Vardy has done it throughout his career and Kelechi Iheanacho is now showing his qualities - he can still improve, as he is still making too many mistakes, but he is getting in there."

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📢 Jamie Vardy: "Nothing has changed with Kelechi Iheanacho, it's just clicked for him. That's what we see in training every day. He should have scored more today [vs West Brom] but so should I!"

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📢 Brendan Rodgers on Wesley Fofana after early substitution: "He’s fine. He’s a young player in the middle of Ramadan, so he’s not eating during the day.

"It’s remarkable. If you think of his performance at the weekend..."

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📢 Rodgers on Fofana: "...in an FA Cup semi-final, where he hasn’t eaten all day and then he had his first taste of food with 15 minutes to go.

"And then the same today, with an 8pm kick-off, he’s not eaten all day or..."

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📢 Rodgers on Fofana: "...or drank and he can still perform to that level.

"It was just one where I thought if I could get him off, then he could get some food into him on the bench and just protect him a little bit..."

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📢 Rodgers on Fofana: "...I’ve worked with lots of players with devotion to their faiths, for a lot of the guys it gives them strength.

"He’s finding an incredible strength to play continuously and train during Ramadan..."

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📢 Rodgers on Fofana: "...he’s a special talent and a big player for us."

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