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

🤍 Spurs

📢 Ryan Mason: "Ben Davies is the only one that has not been training. Tanguy [Ndombele] and Lucas [Moura] didn't train for the majority..."

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📢 Mason: "...of last week, they trained the day before the [Sheffield United] game.

"But this week we have had a fully-fit squad."

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📢 Mason on Gareth Bale: "I can only go on the last two weeks. I experienced playing with him as well. He's a top professional. He's happy and I'm happy and that's important..."

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📢 Mason on Bale: "...I think at the moment, we're seeing Gareth close to his best."

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☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Dean Smith on Jack Grealish: "He’s out on the grass loading the injury, so he’s on his way back.

"This game is too soon for him. He starts training with the group tomorrow, so it’s too soon..."

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📢 Smith on Grealish: "...to put him in against Manchester United.

"As I’ve said many times, we want him back as soon as possible but we’ve got to do it right."

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📢 Smith on other team news: "Morgan Sanson is still not available, he’ll be training with us next week."

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📢 Smith on Anwar El Ghazi: "He’s gone on goalscoring streaks this season rather than last season.

"He’ll be the first to admit that his performances have been a little bit inconsistent and we’re trying to find..."

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📢 Smith on El Ghazi: "...that consistency with him.

"December, he scored five goals and had a great period in that time. He then became a bit more inconsistent and he’s come back again now just when we need him..."

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📢 Smith on El Ghazi: "...really pleased for him and it will do his confidence the world of good."

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🤍 Spurs

📢 Mason on Alli: "I can only take Dele and the rest of the players from what I've seen in the last two weeks. I said last week that Dele trained himself into the team last weekend and he did do that..."

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📢 Mason on Alli: "...whatever has happened in the past has to remain in the past with Dele.

"Dele [and] the rest of the group have shown me that they want to work, they want to compete and it has been a good..."

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📢 Mason on Alli: "...environment to work in, so Dele has been excellent.

"I think it was clear to see that he was 100 per cent committed [against Sheffield United]. He helped us regain a lot of second balls..."

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📢 Mason on Alli: "...he ran a lot and opened a lot of space for the other attacking players.

"Most importantly he had a lot of energy and he felt good, which was pleasing..."

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📢 Mason on Alli: "...like I said all along, there are so many players competing for these positions.

"There's real competition and I think we've seen that this week in training. Everyone has had the right..."

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📢 Mason on Alli: "...mentality and it's difficult to select a starting XI because there's so much quality."

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🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp: "The injury situation...nothing really new - we have a few, what's the saying [looks towards press officer] bumps and bruises.

"So the late decisions, we have to make..."

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📢 Klopp on injury situation: "...late decisions in a few positions [tomorrow].

"Hendo [Jordan Henderson] - while we are sitting here, Hendo is running outside; that's what I can say. Nothing else..."

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📢 Klopp on Henderson: "...was not in team training yet and that's it, pretty much."

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📢 Klopp on Nat Phillips: "The [extra] week helped him for sure, absolutely."

Asked if that means the defender is fit: "Yes. He was fit yesterday."

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🌉 Chelsea

📢 Thomas Tuchel: "We have one day less to recover and it's an away game, so we are travelling today and that's a key factor at this time of the season.

"I imagine we'll need some fresh legs and..."

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📢 Tuchel: "...if there will be new stuff tactically, I don't know, I haven't decided yet.

"I have to look at who is available. There is a high possibility we will see some changes [to the starting XI]."

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📢 Tuchel on team news: "For the injury list, it doesn't change too much. Kova [Mateo Kovacic] is out but we hope to bring him back for Arsenal and then hopefully for Wembley [FA Cup final]..."

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📢 Tuchel on team news: "...it will be tight for Arsenal but for tomorrow he [Kovacic] is out. Everyone else, I think, is available."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Roy Hodgson on injuries: "Strangely enough, at this stage we seem to be recovering a lot of players.

"Mamadou Sakho, Connor Wickham and Nathan Ferguson are out..."

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📢 Roy Hodgson on injuries: "...but Ferguson will be training with the team from the beginning of next week. It's been a miserable 18 months for him."

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📢 Hodgson asked if it's just those three players that are sidelined: "Yes, that's right.

"Both [James] Tomkins and [Nathaniel] Clyne played for the u-23s after training with us. Fit enough for that..."

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📢 Hodgson asked if it's just Sakho, Wickham, Ferguson out injured: "...and back to training with us, so they [Tomkins and Clyne] rejoin the group.

"Ferguson rejoined the group in the beginning of the week..."

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📢 Hodgson asked if it's just Sakho, Wickham, Ferguson out injured: "...but was taken out again to complete his full rehab programme and get cleared by sport science 100 per cent..."

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📢 Hodgson asked if it's just Sakho, Wickham, Ferguson out injured: "...Connor has a slight strain, Sakho has not recovered yet."

No specific mention of Zaha in either injury question

https://twitter.com/MattWoosie/status/1390644301160386560?s=20

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📢 Hodgson on having a bolstered squad: "It's very important, in particular with so many games in a short space of time.

"We're going to need everybody available, the opportunity to rest a few and rotate to avoid..."

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📢 Hodgson on having a bolstered squad: "...a situation like the end of last season. Two games in three games time after time was a bit much."

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📢 Hodgson on Tyrick Mitchell: "The comparisons with [Aaron] Wan-Bissaka are obvious ones to make - they came through our ranks and were good defenders for their age..."

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📢 Hodgson on Mitchell: "...we've been very pleased with Tyrick - in particular I thought he was exceptionally good at the weekend.

"But he's not been blessed with staying fit consistently..."

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📢 Hodgson on Mitchell: "...the big thing will be to make sure he stays fit going forward and it's not going to be a case where we get excited about him and lose him again."

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🏮 Man Utd

📢 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: "Harry Maguire, he’s played every minute for us in the Premier League since he came.

"I don’t think that’s possible now. That’s another stat that he could have been very..."

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📢 Solskjaer on Maguire: "...very proud of but I can’t really see that happening now."

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📢 Solskjaer: "I feel for my players, I feel for the team, I feel for them. Having had this fantastic season, got to a final, I’m sat here answering these questions [about schedule] and not about the run-in..."

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📢 Solskjaer: "...we just have to do the best we can, it’s another challenge for us and please, you can see I’m not happy with it [but] I’m not sulking, it’s one of them things that I know my players will take..."

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📢 Solskjaer: "...head-on and we as a group will be stronger for it when we come out of it.

"I just keep my fingers crossed that no one will get injured. That’s going to be my biggest concern, injuries..."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "....if I’m going to look after the players, I’m going to make some decisions. We’ll just have to make some decisions.

"I’ve got to look after the players, that’s the biggest..."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "....thing, injuries to players and that’s too much of an injury risk.

"I cannot risk them, so it has to be rotation. It has to be a lot of rotation and decisions made on the day..."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "...of the game. We can’t prepare for the game which every team does, they get a week or two, or 10 days or five days; this is someone else dealing hands..."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "...I can promise you that it is impossible to play 90 minutes four times at this intensity, at that level, in the Premier League, from Thursday to Thursday..."

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📢 Solskjaer on fixture pile-up: "...that means I cannot play everyone in every minute, so we have got to prioritise."

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📢 Solskjaer asked if it could be a situation where he puts out one XI in a certain game and a different XI the next: "Yeah. As I said, two games in three days is difficult but you can accept that.

"Three games..."

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📢 Solskjaer: "...in five days is very, very difficult, almost impossible. And four games in eight, it is impossible.

"I don’t know how you can defend playing these three games in so short a space of time..."

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📢 Solskjaer: "...and I have to look after the players. That might be somebody not happy with my selection for one game or two games and that might affect whoever gets into the fourth position..."

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📢 Solskjaer: "...or Champions League but that's not my problem. That’s everyone else’s problem."

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📢 Solskjaer asked if fixture pile-up gives advantage to top-four rivals playing weakened United team: "It depends what team I put out in what games. One of them might not be happy because I play a full team..."

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📢 Solskjaer asked if fixture pile-up gives advantage to top-four rivals playing weakened United team: "...for one and the next XI in the other."

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on Rice: "We’re getting closer to getting Declan back, because we’re a week down the line. He’s back on the grass and closing in on it and we’ll try and get him back as soon as we can."

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📢 Moyes on injured contingent [Rice, Arthur Masuaku, Angelo Ogbonna, Mark Noble]: "We are hoping we can get them back but I will not put any dates on when I think we can have them available."

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📢 Moyes on Antonio: "Michail is so important to us and he has been ever since we’ve put him in at centre-forward.

"He was roughly the top goalscorer around those nine games after lockdown and he’s been..."

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📢 Moyes on Antonio: "...very good this season too. Unfortunately we’ve lost him a few times to injury as well but he’s back, in good spirits and we’ll hope that form continues to the end of the season."

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📢 Moyes on attacking options: "It's good we've got Said [Benrahma] into a position to contribute the way he did on Monday and Jarrod Bowen had scored three in five before Burnley, and we want to keep that..."

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📢 Moyes on attacking options: "...flexibility as much as we can. I want to rotate them and make the right choices for each game and get the right results."

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🫐 Everton

📢 Carlo Ancelotti on James Rodriguez: "It is a little problem. He didn't train this week, he trained alone following a proper rehab and the plan is to start training at the beginning of next week."

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📢 Ancelotti: "For this weekend, we have back [Abdoulaye] Doucoure. He trained with the team, he's available."

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💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola: "People might think the guys who played against Dortmund and Gladbach are going to play the [Champions League] final. Right now I don’t know. What I want is everyone involved..."

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📢 Guardiola: "...in the next two to three weeks, to prepare for the final.

"The final is deserved for both teams but it’s 21 days [away]."

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🇵🇹 Wolves

📢 Nuno on Willy Boly, who is out of Gameweek 35 but could feature in #GW36: "He's much better. He's recovering and getting better. He's been able to join parts of sessions."

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📢 Nuno on Raul Jimenez: "He has an exam on the 18th of this month. From there, we'll know what we need to do. We need this clearance and he's seeing the specialist on the 18th."

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🔲 Fulham

📢 Scott Parker: "We're looking close to a full squad. Harrison Reed has come in for the first time for some light work. Tom Cairney is with the group and heading in the right direction. We will make a call on him."

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🌞 Brighton

📢 Graham Potter on team news: "The game is going to come too soon for Adam Lallana, he will hopefully be available for our match against West Ham. Apart from that, there’s nothing new to report."

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📢 Potter on Danny Welbeck: "He’s of a high-end Premier League level, we see the goal he scored against Leeds regularly in training. As a man and player he is well respected and well liked."

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