Thread by @ColmVHayes

🧵 Thread of key quotes ahead of Blank Gameweek 12

🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Antonio Conte on Doherty: "About Matt, honestly I'm really happy, really happy.

"He played a good game against Brighton but today he played better..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #gw12 #bgw12 #MunTot

📢 Conte on Doherty: "...than the last game. He played well in the last game and I was happy also with it but today, I have seen again the Matt Doherty of last season.

"I was really pleased and said to him..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #gw12 #bgw12 #MunTot

📢 Conte on Doherty: "...'finally now you are the player that I know!'.

"It's important, important for us because to play all these games in a short period, it is important to have all the players available."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #gw12 #bgw12 #MunTot

📢 Conte on Perisic: "Ivan played in the way that I know him. Also Ivan for his injury, before he struggled a bit to have a good performance. Yes, normal performance but my expectations about him are like today, to play like the top."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #bgw12

📢 Conte on Richarlison injury: "For sure he's out against Manchester United, for sure.

"He felt something in his calf and he won't be available for that game.

"I don't know but I think he needs a bit of time to recover..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #bgw12

📢 Conte on Richarlison injury: "...it's a pity because we are talking about a player that gives us a lot of quality but at the same time, also is strong and he improves our intensity."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

📢 Conte on Dejan Kulusevski: "The problem with Kulusevski also needs time to recover.

"Fingers crossed for the next games because we have to play many, many games in a short period."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #thfc #TotEve #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

🐖 Fulham

📢 Marco Silva on Aleksandar Mitrovic: "If he's not fit, [he] will not be on the pitch.

"When a player comes back from being injured and probably the last 12, 13 days he didn't work with the team..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #ffc #FulBou #bgw12 #FulAvl #gw12

📢 Silva on Mitrovic: "...of course he's not the same [as when] he's playing and training every single day.

"He had some sessions during the week, some individual sessions.

"[He was] with the group the last two days..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #ffc #FulBou #bgw12 #FulAvl #gw12

📢 Silva on Mitrovic: "...of course, I had a conversation with him and the feedback was positive from him.

"I took the decision to start with him. We are not here to take risks with the players."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #ffc #FulBou #bgw12 #FulAvl #gw12

📢 Aleksandar Mitrovic on playing 90 minutes against Bournemouth: "I’ve been in a lot of pain. Pain killers helped a lot.

"I still haven’t completely recovered but managed to get the goal today."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #ffc #FulBou #bgw12 #FulAvl #gw12

🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Ibrahima Konate: "Ibou has a little muscle injury. It won't take him out for too long but no chance for this week."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

🏰 Newcastle

📢 Eddie Howe on Isak: "Alex has just re-injured his thigh. It’s a similar injury to the first one he picked up with Sweden. He’s going to be out for a while. We probably won’t see him before the World Cup."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe on Allan Saint-Maximin: "Maxi’s got a very slight irritation of his hamstring.

"On its own, that would be probably a few days out but because it’s the third time he’s done it..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe on Saint-Maximin: "...we’re going to have to be very careful with his return to play.

"Huge blows for us [losing Saint-Maximin and Isak]."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe on Willock: "Joe was one of the players that picked up an illness in the week, so he didn’t train the last two days.

"He travelled here separately and thankfully he was able to take his place on the bench."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe on Kieran Trippier: "Tripps is fine, injury-wise. He was suffering with a bit of illness coming into the game.

"He was ill overnight. He’s fine now. With a couple of days recovery, he’ll be good."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe on Man Utd draw: "I think the hallmark of a good team is being hard to beat.

"Defensive solidity is so important, being difficult to score against and I have to compliment the players on delivering..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe on Man Utd draw: "...those things for us consistently.

"The challenge is to continue with that consistency while not losing our attacking edge.

"I just thought we were a little bit off today with the ball."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

📢 Howe: "Physically we seemed to suffer in the second half, as there was a bit of illness in the camp in midweek.

"There were a couple of players playing today who weren't 100 per cent fit."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #bgw12 #NewEve #gw12

🏮 Man Utd

📢 Erik ten Hag pre-match: "[Christian Eriksen] is ill, so we have some illness. Also [Marcus] Rashford is under the weather and also feels not quite well but he has enough energy to play a couple of minutes."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #mufc #MunNew #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

📢 Ten Hag on Eriksen post-match: "We miss him when he's not available.

"But we have a squad and another 11 players on the pitch. So then we have to construct another team and we can bring players from the bench..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #mufc #MunNew #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

📢 Ten Hag on Eriksen post-match: "...who are all good.

"I can't tell [if he will face Spurs]. I want to express he's played fantastic, in this moment, for us. In our team, he really contributes to what we are..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #mufc #MunNew #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

📢 Ten Hag on Eriksen post-match: "...at this moment. I don't know if he will be available for Wednesday but I hope [so], of course."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #mufc #MunNew #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

📢 Ten Hag on rotation: "We have to cover four games in 10 [days].

"For the strikers, I want to keep them fresh and we have to rotate there..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #mufc #MunNew #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

📢 Ten Hag on rotation: "...we had problems with [Anthony] Martial as he is not available at the moment, he has to play less."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #mufc #MunNew #bgw12 #MunTot #gw12

🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Diogo Jota injury: "You can see a little bit that somebody kicks his foot and maybe the muscle got overstretched, 96 minutes; that’s not good for the muscle..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Klopp on Jota injury: "...he felt it immediately and now we have to wait to see how bad it is.

"We miss the next one with Diogo. He felt real pain in it. No idea how bad it is.

"When Diogo stays down, it is not good."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Klopp on Salah: "Yeah, Mo played an exceptional game. Absolutely outstanding.

"Yes, obviously he was one of two strikers in the centre together with Bobby [Firmino]. Great, an absolutely top performance..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Klopp on Salah: "...the goal was world-class. The situation immediately before was really unlucky that he didn’t score there already.

"Apart from that, good on the ball, a constant threat in behind..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Klopp on Salah: "...working extremely hard; an outstanding performance, honestly. It was really good."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Klopp on Salah's number going up: "Yes [it was a mistake], the wrong number on the board - that’s exactly it.

"I wanted to talk to Mo because his role changed; Darwin came on and Mo played more of a 10 around Darwin..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Klopp on Salah's number going up: "...and Darwin was the one in behind more. Obviously, Mo didn’t come in the first place and was disappointed because he saw the number but I didn’t know about any ‘11’ on the board."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lfc #LivMci #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

💠 Man City

📢 Guardiola: "We had some fantastic chances. We were brave, we played the game we should play. I don’t have any regrets over how we've done it. We made a good process to not allow them transitions. In general the back three was brilliant."

#fpl #gw11 #mcfc #LivMci

🌉 Chelsea

📢 Graham Potter on formation: "We tried to be a back three in build-up and a back four defensively with Raheem [Sterling as a wing-back]. We had to make a change at half time I felt and the boys did it well..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on formation: "...we’ve got options there. If you look at where we were, Marc Cucurella was the left centre-back which can work but it didn’t work so much today.

"We had to adjust that but Raheem [Sterling]..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on formation/Sterling: "...can play high and wide in all those positions but clearly, the balance of the team is one that we have to look at and find the right solutions."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Kepa: "We needed Kepa and he made some fantastic saves.

"He is contributing to us with clean sheets and how we’re trying to play and the environment around the place..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Kepa: "...I’ve got to say all three goalkeepers we’ve had here have been really, really good in that regard - supporting each other, providing good competition and that picks everybody’s level up..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Kepa: "...and Kepa has found a fantastic level today.

"Made some brilliant saves that have kept us in the game and allowed us to win the points, so really pleased for him..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Kepa: "...it was a world-class performance, especially in the first half.

"I’m really pleased for him, he has had a tough period for us at times but he contributed to the game."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Mount: "For Mason I think it’s about the team, about his role in the team. He works so hard for the team always.

"He’s got the quality, he’s got the ability to score and assist. Sometimes players..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Mount: "... go through little dips if the team isn’t functioning that well and maybe the team wasn’t functioning as well as it maybe can.

"As a result of that individuals, don’t play to the same level..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Mount: "...but the effort’s always been there from my perspective and once he can get into the space we want to get him into, he has the quality to execute and we saw that today."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on Thiago Silva: "He felt a little tightness in his hamstring, so we’ll see how he recovers for Wednesday."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

📢 Potter on James: "He is in a brace for four weeks and that slows everything down.

"Reece felt a bit of discomfort the following day [after Milan in the #UCL], came home and we got it assessed as quickly as we could."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #BreChe #gw12

☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Steven Gerrard on Bailey: "Medical advice for Leon was 30 [minutes from the bench] or 60 tops [from the start].

"Leon has been one of our brightest players this year and I decided to go with..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #avfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #FulAvl #gw12

📢 Gerrard on Bailey: "...the 60 rather than the 30. In a selfish world, I didn’t really want to take him off but Leon’s health, body and medical advice is more important to what I want at that moment."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #avfc #AvlChe #bgw12 #FulAvl #gw12

🐻‍❄️ Leeds

📢 Jesse Marsch on Rodrigo: "We knew that the workload for that position in the match was going to be heavy.

"So the idea was that we were going to trade Rodrigo and Patrick [Bamford] no matter what..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lufc #LeeArs #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Marsch on Rodrigo: "...and we just decided to do it at half time.

"Obviously, he makes the choice to play this big switch that's not normally what we'd like to do. It leads to a moment that costs him and the team..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lufc #LeeArs #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Marsch on Rodrigo: "...but in general, you know, Rodri, he's had a good run of form with us and we need him.

"We need him to get hot, we need Patrick [Bamford] to get hot. We need guys to score goals..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lufc #LeeArs #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Marsch on Rodrigo: "...so obviously I'm disappointed for Rodri but in the end, he's still an important guy."

On Bamford: "I feel like Patrick's coming into form, he's looking physically strong and now hopefully..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lufc #LeeArs #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Marsch on Bamford: "...we can develop a rhythm with him and we can be a different team if he can catch fire.

"The thing is, if a striker is not getting chances then you're more worried than if he's missing them."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lufc #LeeArs #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta on Bukayo Saka: "Really important goals and today again.

"Those front players, those young players, they are consistently winning matches and affecting results and being ruthless in front of goal."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #afc #LeeArs #bgw12 #gw12

🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on Craig Dawson and Kurt Zouma: "One’s got an injury [Dawson], one’s got an illness [Zouma] so we’ve had to go without them. No idea. No idea [if they will be available to play on Wednesday]."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Moyes on missing Dawson, Zouma: "We had to alter what we were doing [switch to a back five]. And by the way, I thought in the main we did it very well.

"Considering what we had, I thought we played well enough..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Moyes on missing Dawson, Zouma: "..just couldn’t turn our opportunities into goals. We had moments where we weren’t good enough defensively but you’d have to say the bigger part was our attacking play was very good..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Moyes on missing Dawson, Zouma: "..having no centre-halves gave [Southampton] a big opportunity.

"Not having any centre-halves in the team probably cost us the game because we didn’t have enough toughness at times..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Moyes on missing Dawson, Zouma: "...in the game when they got it up to [Che] Adams in the early part. We weren’t physical enough and they got a goal from it..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Moyes on missing Dawson, Zouma: "...we allowed Adams to bully us but today was a day when we didn’t have any real central defenders, which gave them a chance to get up the pitch quickly and get second balls."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

📢 Moyes on taking Gianluca Scamacca off after 86 minutes: "We were just looking at somebody who we thought had run out of steam.

"We got him further than we’ve got him in any other game, so no problem."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #whufc #SouWhu #bgw12 #LivWhu #gw12

🇦🇹 Southampton

📢 Ralph Hasenhuttl on Romain Perraud: "Very important for us. Against the ball he’s a very good player, with the ball he can create some things. Today again he scored against West Ham like in the cup."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #saintsfc #SouWhu #bgw12 #BouSou #gw12

📢 Hasenhuttl on Armel Bella-Kotchap: "A dislocated shoulder. It can be anything from playing on Wednesday to being out for eight weeks.

"[It would be] just as damaging as the loss of Tino [Livramento] and..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #saintsfc #SouWhu #bgw12 #BouSou #gw12

📢 Hasenhuttl on Bella-Kotchap: "...Romeo [Lavia]. [Armel] is an important player for us."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #saintsfc #SouWhu #bgw12 #BouSou #gw12

🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Patrick Vieira on taking off Wilfried Zaha, Doucoure, Edouard: "It was just about trying to win the game. You’re not happy with what the team is doing, so you try something different..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

📢 Vieira on taking off Zaha, Doucoure, Edouard: "...I don’t want to go into details, because we could spend all details here."

On Leicester draw: "Defensively, we did enough not to concede that goal. But I wanted..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

📢 Vieira on Leicester draw: "...more from the team going forward, as we had the quality to create more.

"We had a couple of crosses where we didn’t have anybody available on the cut-back and this is something..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

📢 Vieira on Leicester draw: "...we will have to work on and improve. We didn’t play to hurt them, [we] played without taking risks, with the handbrake on, making it comfortable for them - even more in the second half..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

📢 Vieira on Leicester draw: "...we have to keep believing a bit more, trust in each other a little bit more, play to score goals. We have the quality to do it but today doesn’t reflect the quality we’ve shown so far."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on James Maddison's yellow card/suspension: "I haven’t seen it back but I’m assuming he thinks there’s going to be contact there and it didn’t quite come for him..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Rodgers on Maddison's yellow card/suspension: "...he’s one of the most talented and creative players in the league, so it’s a shame.

"[It’s frustrating] for him, more than anyone..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Rodgers on Maddison's yellow card/suspension: "...when you miss a player of that level, in the position we’re in, we could do without it."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Rodgers on Maddison performance: "I thought he had a good game, I thought he was really creative for us.

"He’s a guy who is playing out of position for the team because we don’t have a winger on that side..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #cpfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Rodgers on Maddison performance: "...of the pitch and his cleverness and brightness is still allowing us to be creative and score goals.

"He’s a top player at this level. I thought he had a good game today."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lcfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

📢 Rodgers on Jonny Evans injury: "We’ll see how he is in the next couple of days. He’ll be doubtful for Thursday but hopefully the game after that, he’ll be ok."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #lcfc #LeiCry #bgw12 #LeiLee #gw12

🍒 Bournemouth

📢 Gary O'Neil on Solanke: "Part of the plan was to try and get Dom down this [right] side.

"That’s why we pressed how we pressed - to try and get Dom down this side on transition, down our right..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #afcb #FulBou #bgw12 #BouSou #gw12

📢 O'Neil on Solanke: "...I thought he caused Fulham big problems."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #afcb #FulBou #bgw12 #BouSou #gw12

🐺 Wolves

📢 Steve Davis on Jose Sa's wrist injury: "It depends on where that break is and what type of fracture it is [if it's dangerous to keep playing].

"It can be hairline, it can be very little. Obviously if..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #wwfc #WolNfo #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

📢 Davis on Sa's wrist injury: "...his wrist is hanging off, he isn’t going to play.

"It’s about the severity of the damage to the wrist. He had an x-ray and looked at it with the medical team and they decide..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #wwfc #WolNfo #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12

📢 Davis on Sa's wrist injury: "...with the player and the coach, whether the risk is worth it."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #wwfc #WolNfo #bgw12 #CryWol #gw12