We have had
doubts over the fitness of Laurent Koscielny, but Arsene Wenger appeared to reveal that he would be able to feature tonight, which will be a huge boost to have our August Vitality Player of the Month available.
Christian Maggio is out on yellow card accumulation, and there are
doubts over the fitness of Giorgio Chiellini, Ignazio Abate, Daniele De Rossi and Thiago Motta.
Paul Aguilar and Cecilio Dominguez will miss out for sure, while there are
doubts over the fitness of Renato Ibarra, Pablo Aguilar and Bruno Valdez.
Add to that
the doubts over the fitness of both of our first choice centre backs and all of a sudden this banker win is looking like a potential banana skin for Wenger and his players.
The 26 - year - old has made 19 appearances in all competitions so far this season, but has picked up knocks along the way to cast
doubt over his fitness.
As per the Express, there are
doubts over his fitness as we approach his side's visit to Middlesbrough this weekend, as he suffered whiplash while scoring the goal.
We have
doubts over the fitness of Theo Walcott, Santi Cazorla, Lucas Perez and Mesut Ozil, so I've left them out of my line - up, while I firmly expect Danny Welbeck to come off the bench during the match.
We might end up regretting it if Khedira goes somewhere and plays brilliantly but he has hardly been able to get into the Madrid team this season and there are
doubts over his fitness.
We come into the match without Santi Cazorla and Mohamed Elneny, and with
doubts over the fitness of Kieran Gibbs and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, but our squad should have plenty in hand to deal with their absences.
We are definitely going to be without three big players in Cazorla, Lucas Perez and Petr Cech and there are
doubts over the fitness of a few more.
With continuing
doubts over the fitness of Carrol and Sakho our hopes rest with the return Andre Ayew but in the meantime we may as well give Ashley Fletcher more game time; what use is the occasional 5 or 10 minutes?
With injuries to Shkodran Mustafi and
a doubt over the fitness of Sead Kolasinac, it was expected the Arsenal boss would return to a back four and move Nacho Monreal to left - back.
He could be required to take on more responsibility to create goalscoring opportunities against the USA, esp given
the doubts over the fitness of former club teammate and captain Cristiano Ronaldo.
Arsenal have slight
doubts over the fitness of Squillaci, Park and Santos, as well as a reported shoulder injury for goalkeeper Sczezny, though this is both unconfirmed and possibly minor.
The Gunners have
doubts over the fitness of Jack Wilshere.
The momentum hit a stumbling block on Tuesday morning though, with Wenger confirming there were
doubts over the fitness of Granit Xhaka and Laurent Koscielny.
Not exact matches
Having said that, Lukas Podolski put Wenger's reluctance to play him under serious
doubt and his last minute burst and goal proved the German's
fitness over 90 minutes.
Drop more points against Stoke and Burnley's hopes of catching Arsenal will fade away, but they will have to make the trip to the Potteries with
fitness doubts over James Tarkowski, Georges - Kevin N'Koudou, Ben Mee and Jonathan Walters.
Despite his recent dip in form, Bale's quality when he's at full
fitness means it's little surprise to see so many top clubs linked with him amid
doubts over his Bernabeu future.
The game was
over, there were
doubts over Welbeck's
fitness (so why risk him in a game you've already won), and yet he still came on ahead of Walcott.
With Giroud struggling for goals and with
doubts over the match
fitness of Danny Welbeck, when better to give Theo a run in the centre forward role if he was performing well.
Mesut Ozil's
fitness has been confirmed so he is in, but there is a little more
doubt over the central midfield.
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If Jack is able to prove his
fitness over the course of a season, I have no
doubt he can become a future captain for club and country.
The Reds are in need of central defensive cover because of
doubts over Jamie Carragher and Sotirios Kyrgiakos» long - term futures and Daniel Agger's
fitness.
Nevertheless, Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has two key decisions to make for the return fixture at the Nou Camp as Philippe Coutinho is ineligible to play, while Andres Iniesta is a
fitness doubt after picking up an injury in the win
over Atletico Madrid at the weekend, as per Marca.
There are still
doubts, apparently,
over the
fitness of the Arsenal and Germany international midfield star Mesut Ozil, who has been ill with some bug and has not played for the Gunners since the 5 - 1 drubbing by Bayern Munich in Germany on February 15th.
Truth is we do nt need 3 to 4 players its a More a mental issue the players need to maintain their focus Throughout the season of course every big team needs to strengthen no
doubt but this players have the quality to Do something special we just need that extra bit of belief that we can do it, Last summer it was a
fitness coach we signed this summer we should look out for a top Psychologist, cause which ever player joins no matter how big the player is if the environment you are playing in do nt have the belief youve got, you either
over work yourself or you drop into the same mindset, Yes we do need to strengthen no we do nt need 3 - 4 players
There was so much doom and gloom
over Ozil and Sanchez's contract situations but now with the return of Wilshere to full
fitness and the rise of Nelson I
doubt many people will even notice Ozila dnSanxhez have gone at the beginning of next season.
There were
doubts over Theo Walcott and Jack Wilshere's
fitness after both of them started for England twice and picked up knocks against Ukraine, however Arsene Wenger has said they are both fit.
maybe this unfortunate event wil push AW into the transfer market, if its serious it would be a huge blow and we would have to strengthen as thomas
fitness over a season is stil a
doubt
Although Balogun came through their last training session unscathed, Rohr still has
doubts over his overall
fitness hence has placed Omeruo in his stead in the line up for today's game, which as expected has been published on Owngoalnigeria.com.
Steve Bruce is sweating
over the
fitness of David Vaughan and Seb Larsson, while John O'Shea is a major
doubt.
However, people all
over the world live on 2 meals a day and if you compare their weight and
fitness against the average American I have no
doubt who will come out on top.