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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Double Gameweek 27 [Thursday]

🐻‍❄️ Leeds

📢 Javi Gracia asked if Patrick Bamford and Rodrigo will be available: "Now, we are working with more players..."

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📢 Gracia asked if Bamford and Rodrigo will be available: "...I suppose if everything is right in the next training session, we'll have more options for the next game [Brighton]."

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📢 Gracia asked how well Luis Sinisterra and Rodrigo have trained this week: "They are doing something with the team.

"They are starting...some long-term injured players need a process to adapt and come back with the team..."

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📢 Gracia asked how well Sinisterra and Rodrigo have trained this week: "...they are doing something. In the next training session, we will evaluate their situation - if they can help us [v Brighton] or if it's better to wait."

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📘 Everton

📢 Sean Dyche on team news: "Myko [Vitalii Mykolenko] - illness, just making a decision on his strength coming out of that but he trained today.

"Patto [Nathan Patterson] has played another [under-21s] game..."

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📢 Dyche on team news: "...but he [Patterson] is still getting that true match sharpness. Dom [Calvert-Lewin] is around it again, with us training but you know, still making a decision on when he's truly right to come back in."

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📢 Dyche on what he needs to see from Calvert-Lewin: "Just all the markers you can imagine. There are some statisical markers from his history, some training markers from his history as well - from his training regime before..."

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📢 Dyche on what he needs to see from Calvert-Lewin: "...we got here and from the week he trained before he got injured. Of course, speaking to him as well - making sure he feels right about things, as well as the medical team."

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📢 Dyche on Calvert-Lewin chances of facing Brentford: "It's early yet - he's just got on the grass with us.

"He's done a lot of rehab. The stats and facts and the way he's feeling are good. Positive signs, that's for sure."

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📢 Dyche on Demarai Gray playing up front: "I thought he did well [against Nottingham Forest]. We're asking him to change a little bit. He worked hard.

"Neal Maupay's been working hard as well - he worked great in training..."

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📢 Dyche on Gray playing up front: "...this week, no disappointment there [for Maupay over being benched].

"Demarai showed signs of what he can do. He nicked a goal. I've enjoyed his open-mindedness to it..."

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📢 Dyche on Gray playing up front: "...he has played there but it's not always that familiar to him.

"I thought he delivered a good performance."

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🌲 Nottingham Forest

📢 Steve Cooper on team news: "I don't think [there are] any fresh injuries. Some boys are getting closer.

"Cheikhou [Kouyate] has done a little bit of training this week, so he's close..."

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📢 Cooper on team news: "...the boys [long-term injuries] are getting closer but nothing that's really going to affect this weekend."

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on injuries: "I think the only one was Harvey Barnes, from our last game.

"We're hopeful that he might make it. We won't know that until tomorrow.

"He had quite a badly swollen ankle..."

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📢 Rodgers on Barnes: "...but we'll see where that's at."

On Evans: "Jonny is someone who has trained all week, so hopefully - all being well - he should come into the squad for the weekend."

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📢 Rodgers asked if James Maddison is fit amid ongoing knee problem: "Listen, when he's out on that pitch he's declaring himself fit to play.

"With every player, they're never normally 100 per cent. They're always managing..."

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📢 Rodgers asked if Maddison is fit amid ongoing knee problem: "...something. James is managing the issue but it still allows him to play and perform.

"Against Southampton, I thought he was outstanding. He's available to play."

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🐝 Brentford

📢 Thomas Frank on Keane Lewis-Potter: "A knee injury that will keep him out for one to two months."

- No new injuries reported

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