Thread by @ColmVHayes

🧵 Injury + team news thread ahead of Gameweek 19 [deadline Mon Jan 2, 4pm gmt]

🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Andy Robertson: "Funnily enough, Harvey [Elliott] - before the game - injured Robbo..."

#fpl #gw18 #lfc #LivLei #gw19 #BreLiv

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📢 Klopp on Robertson substitution: "...a little bit. In our warm-up game, he hit him with a knee at the hip so it was a dead leg.

"[Andy] could play but then at one point the muscle closed and he couldn’t play on."

#fpl #gw18 #lfc #LivLei #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Klopp on Elliott: "Harvey got a knock, which was quite painful.

WWhen you see the situation, it is clear that it's painful but that’s it, I think."

#fpl #gw18 #lfc #LivLei #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Klopp on Trent Alexander-Arnold's defensive display against Leicester: "Really good and not the first time. It was good, to be honest.

"It was really good, very helpful and very important in these moments. Very, very helpful..."

#fpl #gw18 #lfc #LivLei #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Klopp on Alexander-Arnold's defensive display: "...I think everybody knows how good Harvey Barnes is in these moments and Trent did exceptionally well.

"We had a few good performances but the majority were not on top of their game."

#fpl #gw18 #lfc #LivLei #gw19 #BreLiv

🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers pre-match on James Maddison: "They’ll hopefully see some progress over the next week.

"After seven to 10 days, we’ll see where he’s at in terms of rejoining the group [in training]."

#fpl #gw18 #lcfc #LivLei #gw19 #LeiFul

📢 Rodgers on failing to score another at Liverpool: "It’s down to quality. Unfortunately, especially when you’re missing players [such as] James Maddison, you’re missing that top-end quality at that end of the field..."

#fpl #gw18 #lcfc #LivLei #gw19 #LeiFul

📢 Rodgers on failing to score another at Liverpool: "...clearly when we arrived in [the final third], which we did on a number of occasions, we couldn’t beat the man in a one v one or just gave it away with a loose pass..."

#fpl #gw18 #lcfc #LivLei #gw19 #LeiFul

📢 Rodgers on failing to score another at Liverpool: "...that’s just quality. Performance-wise tonight, it was much better.

"There were some good spells against a top club and now we’ve got to take that confidence into the next game."

#fpl #gw18 #lcfc #LivLei #gw19 #LeiFul

🐝 Brentford

📢 Thomas Frank on Ivan Toney injury: "He had some pain, hopefully nothing serious. It is something with the knee.

"Of course, it didn’t look great but I’ve also been in this game long enough to know..."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Frank on Ivan Toney knee injury: "...that you never know exactly what it is until it’s been assessed over the following days.

"Hopefully it’s a minor injury, a minor thing; there’s a good chance for that..."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Frank on Toney knee injury: "...but of course it could be worse. We don’t know yet."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes asked if he is going to keep Lucas Paqueta in a deeper midfield role: "Yes, I probably am. I’m going to look more at it.

"I thought he played well at times tonight..."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Moyes asked if he is going to keep Paqueta in a deeper midfield role: "...[but he] looked like he was desperately running out of steam, probably because of the way the game had been played - especially in the first half..."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Moyes asked if he is going to keep Paqueta in a deeper midfield role: "...I think I am going to look a bit more at him a bit deeper and see how that works."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

📢 Moyes: "Of course, we know where we are failing - in the final third - and we have just started to loosen a little bit defensively. We have been talking about final-third quality for a long time now and not scoring enough goals."

#fpl #gw18 #brentfordfc #WhuBre #gw19 #BreLiv

🏮 Man Utd

📢 Erik ten Hag asked before kick off why he benched Marcus Rashford: "Internal disciplinary [reasons]. No details. Our rules.

"He is in very good form and no-one can play all the games."

#fpl #gw18 #mufc #WolMun #gw19 #MunBou

📢 Ten Hag post-match on Rashford: "After the decision [to drop him], he came in – he was bright, he was lively, scored a goal. That is the right reaction.

"Of course [that is the end of the matter]. Everyone has to match rules and..."

#fpl #gw18 #mufc #WolMun #gw19 #MunBou

📢 Ten Hag post-match on Rashford: "...values. If you react like this, that is the right answer."

#fpl #gw18 #mufc #WolMun #gw19 #MunBou

📘 Everton

📢 Frank Lampard on Gordon and Mina: "There’s a bit of illness in the group. Anthony and Yerry are both under the weather, so miss out."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

🏮 Man Utd

📢 Marcus Rashford on being dropped for Wolves: "It's the team rules. It's a mistake, it can happen. Disappointed not to play but I understand the decision.

"I was late for a [team] meeting. Slept in, overslept. It can happen."

#fpl #gw18 #mufc #WolMun #gw19 #MunBou

💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola on Everton draw: "We played a really good game.

"The approach from Liverpool and Leeds is quite different to Everton but we played a really good game..."

#fpl #gw18 #mcfc #MciEve #gw19 #CheMci

📢 Guardiola on Everton draw: "...I cannot expect a million chances when they play that way.

"It will be tough but since we came back from the World Cup we have played so well..."

#fpl #gw18 #mcfc #MciEve #gw19 #CheMci

📢 Guardiola on Everton draw: "...I feel that the way we are playing is the top, top level.

"The way we played was really good. I am so satisfied."

#fpl #gw18 #mcfc #MciEve #gw19 #CheMci

📢 Guardiola on Haaland: "With the yellow for Erling, I said be careful because it can be dangerous. We cannot play 10 v 11.

"He was a little bit angry after what happened with his ankle. He reacted well and we did a good game."

#fpl #gw18 #mcfc #MciEve #gw19 #CheMci

📘 Everton

📢 Frank Lampard on Gordon and Mina: "We’ll see [if they're back for Brighton]. This flu thing that’s going around – I’ve just got over it myself – it’s knocking people back..."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

📢 Lampard on Gordon and Mina: "...se’ll just have to go day by day with them before Brighton to see how they are because even when they’re better, it takes the sting out of you a little bit. So we’ll see how they feel."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

📢 Lampard on Michael Keane: "A bit of a niggle in the back of his knee in the warm-up.

"For precaution’s sake, we changed the bench."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

📢 Lampard on Dominic Calvert-Lewin: "We managed it in terms of 60 [minutes]. It was always going to be his level.

"I thought he looked good. It’s hard here for strikers sometimes in the way we play but it’ll be great..."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

📢 Lampard on Calvert-Lewin: "...for his legs to have 60 in them. I thought he was really good."

On Godfrey: "Ben as well coming back into the team, which is difficult.

"You can’t ask to come to a tougher place than here as a defender..."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

📢 Lampard on Calvert-Lewin and Godfrey: "...and I thought both of them equipped themselves brilliantly.

"It’s great to have them back in there, looking as fresh as they did."

#fpl #gw18 #efc #MciEve #gw19 #EveBha

🍒 Bournemouth

📢 Gary O'Neil on Crystal Palace defeat: "I’m furious about the goals. I think if we defend the set-plays how we’ve worked on defending the set-plays, neither goal occurs..."

#fpl #gw18 #afcb #BouCry #gw19 #MunBou

📢 O'Neil on Palace defeat: "...obviously defensive set-plays have been a thing all season really - we’ve struggled with them.

"It’s just so disappointing that they’re so avoidable today.

"If everyone does what they’re supposed to..."

#fpl #gw18 #afcb #BouCry #gw19 #MunBou

📢 O'Neil on Palace defeat: "...be doing in those moments, neither go in.

"That was the worst I’ve seen us. I think it’s the first time since I’ve taken charge that we fell well below the standards that we’ve set..."

#fpl #gw18 #afcb #BouCry #gw19 #MunBou

📢 O'Neil on Palace defeat: "...a lot of them have missed a lot of training with illnesses. We’ve had a couple coming back with injury who lacked rhythm.

"The squad is not in quite such a good place as it was before the break..."

#fpl #gw18 #afcb #BouCry #gw19 #MunBou

📢 O'Neil on Palace defeat: "...we were in a rhythm - we had boys that were used to playing,that were training every day.

"The past few weeks have been a bit messy in that aspect for us but no excuse for sure."

#fpl #gw18 #afcb #BouCry #gw19 #MunBou

🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Patrick Vieira on Michael Olise: "He is a young player and he keeps developing himself.

"Sometimes he will make mistakes tactically and he will miss something, because he still needs to grow as a player..."

#fpl #gw18 #cpfc #BouCry #gw19 #CryTot

📢 Vieira on Olise: "...what he is doing in training, I don’t have any doubts about putting him in the starting eleven.

"Today he was really disciplined, he was playing well. "We all know what he can do with the ball at his feet..."

#fpl #gw18 #cpfc #BouCry #gw19 #CryTot

📢 Vieira on Olise: "...but today he was really good out of possession.

"This is an aspect of his game we needed to improve and you can see that it is coming."

#fpl #gw18 #cpfc #BouCry #gw19 #CryTot

🐖 Fulham

📢 Marco Silva on Aleksandar Mitrovic taking penalties: "The next [penalty he gets] he will score, I’m sure.

"It’s up to us to keep working with him in these situations, as well, for him to put the ball in the net..."

#fpl #gw18 #ffc #FulSou #gw19 #LeiFul

📢 Silva on Mitrovic taking penalties: "...it’s one of the best things that he can do and he’s able to do it the next one [take Fulham's next penalty]."

#fpl #gw18 #ffc #FulSou #gw19 #LeiFul

😇 Southampton

📢 Nathan Jones on Sam Edozie: "We have to [make the change] because he's got cramp and he is not used to playing this amount of games. It's only his second start.

"Yes [he'll be fine for Forest], god willing."

#fpl #gw18 #saintsfc #FulSou #gw19 #SouNfo

📢 Jones on late Lavia introduction: "We could have pushed Romeo today but if he breaks down again...you know, he's only made seven appearances this year and we wanted him to play in our games far more."

#fpl #gw18 #saintsfc #FulSou #gw19 #SouNfo

🏰 Newcastle

📢 Eddie Howe on Matt Targett: "Matt has a heel problem. He's been managing it for a couple of months and it’s got to the point where it’s too painful for him to carry on. When I say a couple of months..."

#fpl #gw18 #nufc #NewLee #gw19 #ArsNew

📢 Howe on Targett: "...I’m including the [World Cup] break in that as well.

"I think he’s going to be out for a period of time.

"I’m not 100 per cent sure how long at the moment. It’s a nasty injury."

#fpl #gw18 #nufc #NewLee #gw19 #ArsNew

🐻‍❄️ Leeds

📢 Marsch on Forshaw: "With Adam, we're still addressing his physical issues so at half time we felt like we needed to take him out."

#fpl #gw18 #lufc #NewLee #gw19 #LeeWhu

📢 Marsch on Harrison: "With Jack, with him coming off of injury, we felt like we were getting a lot out of them but we didn't want to push that too much.

"It's not that we had a cap today. I thought Jack played well and was in the..."

#fpl #gw18 #lufc #NewLee #gw19 #LeeWhu

📢 Marsch on Harrison and Rodrigo: "...match and just wanted to make sure that we didn't risk further injury with him, a little bit with Rodri as well.

"So you know we're getting guys back in, we don't want to have setbacks."

#fpl #gw18 #lufc #NewLee #gw19 #LeeWhu

🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta on Martin Odegaard: "He is doing what we want him to do - to decide football matches and work really hard and deliver to the team what it needs in each moment of every game, which is different..."

#fpl #gw18 #afc #BhaArs #gw19 #ArsNew

📢 Arteta on Odegaard: "...the four front players scored again today. Eddie [Nketiah] scoring again, Bukayo [Saka], [Gabriel] Martinelli.

"That's what we want, those players deciding football matches when the team needs it."

#fpl #gw18 #afc #BhaArs #gw19 #ArsNew #coyg

💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola on Rico Lewis: "Every decision he takes and the moves he makes is good. He helped us do our job."

On absence of Aymeric Laporte: "He had a problem with his back."

#fpl #gw18 #mcfc #MciEve #gw19 #CheMci

🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Conte on Dejan Kulusevski injury: "Yesterday [Saturday] in the last training session he had a little problem. I hope it’s only this game but tomorrow [Monday] we have another scan to understand better the problem in his ankle."

#fpl #gw18 #thfc #TotAvl #gw19 #CryTot