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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Triple Gameweek 35 [Thursday]

🇦🇷 Leeds

📢 Marcelo Bielsa on Kalvin Phillips and Raphinha: "They're being evaluated on a daily basis to see whether they can be available."

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📢 Bielsa asked if Phillips and Raphinha have trained this week: "Their presence is subject to an evaluation carried out on a daily basis."

Asked if he's hopeful they will play: "We have to wait until Saturday."

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📢 Bielsa on Helder Costa: "He won't be able to compete again this season."

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📢 Bielsa asked about Patrick Bamford's lack of goals recently: "He has adapted to the offensive game of the team and the offensive game of the team hasn't been the same in the last few games..."

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📢 Bielsa asked about Bamford's lack of goals recently: "...we try to manage to attack well and defend well at the same time.

"To defend well, it has taken a little bit of our presence offensively..."

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📢 Bielsa asked about Bamford's lack of goals recently: "...and his goalscoring form is linked to how many chances he has to score."

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🏰 Newcastle

📢 Steve Bruce on team news: "Everybody is OK. We lost the appeal with Fabian Schar so he's not available but everybody has come through the weekend unscathed."

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📢 Bruce on Callum Wilson: "He's over his injury, which is vitally important. He's had 90 minutes under his belt which is good for his mental state, as well that he knows his hamstring is OK."

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🇦🇹 Southampton

📢 Ralph Hasenhuttl on injuries: "Ingsy [Danny Ings] still not available. Still with problems. Hopefully we find [get] him back next week.

"Ryan Bertrand is out still with a calf injury..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on injuries: "...Oriol Romeu is back on the training pitch tomorrow; he has a scan, the last one and then we can have a look if he's ok to start with the team next week."

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📢 Hasenhuttl Ings and Romeu: "We have a game against Palace on Tuesday, so we [will] have a look to see if it's possible there. It's a little but short but we'll have a look..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl Ings and Romeu: "...it's important that they are maybe coming back before the end of the season because there are five more games coming up, so it's good when they are available."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "I need to have a good goalkeeper in the goal. If it's the No 1 or the No 1b, or however..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...you call him, it's not interesting. He also have to a duel with another one [keeper]..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...like every other player on the pitch. I am not really a big fan of having a clear No 1..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...it's always normal that goalkeeper have the good moments, where they are in form..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...they make big saves to keep you a clean sheet or to win you a game and some moments..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...where they are struggling a little bit. Then, maybe the other one is in better momentum..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...and then you can use him [the other goalkeeper]. The good thing is we have..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if his plan is to arrive at a first-choice keeper or if he doesn't need to have a 'No 1': "...two good goalkeepers we can trust and this is something of an advantage."

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📢 Hasenhuttl asked if he's decided which keeper will start at Liverpool: "Yes."

Asked would he say who, a jovial response of: "No! I don't want to."

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📢 Hasenhuttl when it's mentioned that he plans to share time between Forster and McCarthy: "Yes, yes that can be [what happens] in the final six games but you must always wait [to see] who's playing."

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🪱 Burnley

📢 Sean Dyche on Chris Wood: "Woody had a dead leg. He was labouring a little bit in the last game but he's come through that fine."

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📢 Dyche on Nick Pope and Wood: "Popey is looking strong as well, so we're hopeful for those two."

On Ashley Barnes: "Barnesy is looking stronger and sharper, and fitter in training - we believe in the..."

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📢 Dyche on Barnes: "...intensity the lads put into training, and he and we have used that to get him at least up to a level where he can certainly be part of the squad."

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📢 Dyche: "We'll still be missing Robbie and Kevin Long. Dale Stephens is carrying a bit of a knock, that might have to be dealt with over time but he was okay to train today. So, so far so good."

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🗡️ Sheffield United

📢 Paul Heckingbottom on team news: "No [nothing new], not as it stands, everything is as it was.

"More bodies getting minutes under their belt in training but it's as you were."

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📢 Heckingbottom asked if Sander Berge and Chris Basham came through #GW34 ok: "They are fine, [they] will benefit from the more minutes we can give them; might be more minutes than we had planned but..."

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📢 Heckingbottom asked if Berge and Basham came through #GW34 ok: "...in the long run now, they will have benefited from it."

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🏮 Man Utd

📢 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on selection for Roma: "We have to focus, the players have focus on one game at a time. It's going to be relentless this week but you don't play well here..."

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📢 Solskjaer on selection for Roma: "...and now thinking about the next one, so we've picked a team that we think is going to be strong enough to give Roma a lot to think about..."

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📢 Solskjaer on selection for Roma: "...we want to go out, start dominating the game and start controlling the game."

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📢 Solskjaer post-match on upcoming schedule: "It's unheard of. It's made by people who have never played football at this level.

"It's physically impossible for the players..."

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📢 Solskjaer on upcoming schedule: "...we have not been dealt a good hand. We are going to need everyone for these four games. It's a short turnaround but we have to be ready."

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📢 Solskjaer on schedule: "Physically impossible for the players to do it after being here; doing Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday, it's impossible. We'll have to see how we are on Sunday morning."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "We’ve been dealt a very bad hand and I’ve just got to do what I have to do.

"Let’s see how we’ll deal with it. Two games in three days, or three games..."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "...in five [days] is very, very difficult. Four in eight is impossible."

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📢 Solskjaer asked if everyone is fit: "I hope so, we’re going to need everyone anyway in these four games and we’ve just got to see how they are on Sunday morning..."

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📢 Solskjaer asked if everyone is fit: "...we play at two o’clock on Sunday, so that’s a short turnaround but we’ll have to be ready and that’s just how it is."

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