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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Gameweek 37 [Tuesday]

☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Dean Smith on team news: "I’m hopeful Tyrone Mings trains today.

“Morgan (Sanson) is still not available, he’s just got a recurrence of the..."

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📢 Smith on team news: "...knee injury so he’s out for the last couple of games. Matty Cash the same with his hamstring."

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📢 Smith asked if Grealish is ready to start: "Jack is training today and then we’ll have a discussion with him after and with the medical staff to decide on the progress of his recovery..."

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📢 Smith asked if Grealish is ready to start: "...we had a plan for his comeback for the last four games and we’ll adapt that in terms of how he feels and how much loading he’s getting."

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📢 Smith on Spurs: "I expect a good game. They’ve got a front four who are capable of hurting anybody in Gareth Bale, Dele Alli, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.

"So we have to make sure defensively we are much better..."

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📢 Smith on Spurs: "...than we were second half against Crystal Palace. If you concede 23 chances against Tottenham, you’re going to concede goals.

"So we have to make sure we’re tight, for sure, in this game."

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📢 Smith on Emi Martinez: "He’s been excellent. To get 15 clean sheets, especially after last season when we never got a clean sheet away from home, is a remarkable achievement.

"We knew what we were getting, I think he had..."

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📢 Smith on Martinez: "...proven that at the end of the season with Arsenal.

"But the whole team has defended better this season, that’s something that hasn’t dropped off throughout the season - defensive stats..."

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📢 Smith on Martinez and defence: "...unfortunately, in the last 14 or 15 games, we’ve probably dropped off in terms of creating chances and that can happen when your best player [Grealish] comes out of the team."

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📢 Smith on Grealish: "He's just had 30 minutes against Palace and 20-odd minutes last week and we're building him up. I've got to have a conversation with the medical staff this morning. He might [start]. We'll train today."

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🏰 Newcastle

📢 Steve Bruce on Magpies' goalscoring form: "We got beat in our last game but I've been delighted with us over the last few weeks. It's about getting the balance right - we still concede too many. I've enjoyed..."

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📢 Bruce on Magpies' goalscoring form: "...watching us and we've done well of late. It's important we keep the standard high."

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📢 Bruce on Joe Willock: "You can see him enjoying it and enjoying scoring. To take the ball off Joelinton for the penalty shows the state of mind - he wants to score..."

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📢 Bruce on Willock: "...he's given us another dimension from midfield. The distance him and [Miguel] Almirón cover from midfield is great to watch."

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📢 Bruce on Ryan Fraser and Isaac Hayden: "They haven't joined in [with full training]. They're both probably raring to go but with five days to go - why risk them? I wouldn't be risking it with the two of them."

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🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta on team news: "No big changes. I think everybody is fit apart from David [Luiz].

"Let’s see how Granit [Xhaka] is as well but for the rest, I think they are okay."

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🪱 Burnley

📢 Sean Dyche: "Nick Pope is touch and go."

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📢 Dyche on Pope: "Popey is touch and go as to whether he plays in this one, so we will have to make a call on that one."

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📢 Dyche: "Dale Stephens and Phil Bardsley both had operations and will miss it and Kevin Long and Robbie Brady are both still unavailable."

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🇵🇹 Wolves

📢 Nuno on Raul Jimenez: "As we speak he's in a meeting with the specialist and our doctor. Hopefully we'll have positive news this afternoon. From there we'll decide. He's training well, even today..."

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📢 Nuno on Jimenez: "...his fitness is good but we have to be patient.

"Let's hope for the best [in terms of Raul travelling to Everton]. I believe he wants to play but he has to be patient."

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📢 Nuno on team news: "We hope [Daniel Podence will] be fit for the beginning of August. Marcal is returning from a long moment off. We have to be careful with him because of what happened. Willy Boly is much better, so let's see."

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📢 Nuno: "The shape of our defence for the first [Spurs] goal, it's really frustrating one pass breaks the lines of the team. Lack of focus and discipline.

"Clearly a moment we can avoid. When the opponent makes..."

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📢 Nuno: "...a fantastic moment, we accept and applaud. But that was not the case."

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🤍 Spurs

📢 Ryan Mason on Harry Kane: "He's going to be 100 per cent committed. I'm looking forward to seeing him play in front of our fans. He starts tomorrow because he's our best striker."

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📢 Mason on team news: "Ben [Davies] still out. Serge [Aurier] is back and training. A couple of question marks over a few players [including Gareth Bale] after the game."

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More (🙄) from Dyche on Pope: "None of those four [Stephens, Bardsley, Long, Brady] will figure.

"It's kind of touch and go over what decision we come up with [for] Popey."

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🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Jota: "Diogo, the swelling went down. It looked better than first scan. So it's a tiny chance for the weekend. But good news for Portugal, Diogo for the Euros. We'll see if it's good enough for us."

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📢 Klopp on other team news: "[James] Milner will train today. Ox [Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain] is back, he was ill. Naby [Keita] not [going to be] part of it [for Burnley]."

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📢 Klopp on Alexander-Arnold corner for Alisson goal: "This was a world-class corner from Trent; not the first or last. [Nat] Phillips could have scored, Sadio [Mane] was in position too. We shouldn't take that for granted..."

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📢 Klopp on Alexander-Arnold corner for Alisson goal: "...world-class players in decisive moments can deliver an average set-piece because of pressure. His corner made it."

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📢 Klopp on Alexander-Arnold: "Trent's had a good season. He had 20 odd different centre-back partners. So he has a bigger influence on organising. [From] a world-class talent to an organiser is a big step but he did [it]..."

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📢 Klopp on Alexander-Arnold: "...in a good moment, long may it continue."

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📢 Klopp on Salah: "It sounds like you're surprised by his reaction at West Brom, I am not. I could see [it] in his face, his determination. I know how much Mo is committed to this club..."

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📢 Klopp on Salah: "...I don't need a goal celebration to see it [his determination/commitment]. He is working his socks off here. In a really good moment."

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🤍 Spurs

📢 Mason asked if Bale can start another game so soon: "I am not sure. Gareth was probably the best I have seen him all season at the weekend. He was sharp, he was running at players, he has that confidence back..."

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📢 Mason asked if Bale can start another game so soon: "...of playing in repetitive games and he feels confident in his body.

"He also knows his body. He is a question mark for tomorrow. We are not sure whether or not he is..."

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📢 Mason asked if Bale can start another game so soon: "...going to be ready. It is down to the player, he is experienced enough. We'll see. Like it was with Serge [Aurier], if a player doesn't feel 100 per cent [and] I don't..."

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📢 Mason asked if Bale can start another game so soon: "...feel confident enough, we have enough players ready [who are] competing, that want to play. If a player doesn't feel 100 per cent and it is not right then he won't play."

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📢 Mason asked if Spurs fans will give Kane 'a send off' on Wednesday: "A send off? No, we've got a game at the weekend [against Leicester] as well so Harry is definitely going to be involved [in that too]."

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on team news: "We still have a problem with Manuel Lanzini but most of the squad are okay."

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🫐 Everton

📢 Carlo Ancelotti: "We have [Yerry] Mina back, we have Joshua King back. Only [JP] Gbamin is out for this game, all the others are available.

"It's always good to have all the squad available. I can do the right..."

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📢 Ancelotti: "...choice for the line-up tomorrow but it's the reaction and attitude that we have to show after our defeat against Sheffield United."

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📢 Ancelotti on home vs away form: "We planned 21 games to be strong defensively, play on the counter-attack, use set-pieces. We won 14 of those. In 15 games we tried to play a bit differently. Of these 15 games we won only two."

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