Kieran Gibbs is a doubt after picking up an injury against West Ham and Theo Walcott is ruled out after picking up
an injury whilst playing for England.
Iceland's best player Gylfi Sigurdsson suffered a serious knee
injury whilst playing for Everton.
Don't forget he sustained all
his injuries whilst playing for his club or country, he hasn't got them falling over his dog or off his bike, like some players have done in the past.
Not exact matches
Mustafi is also anticipated to
play a part,
whilst Walcott made his return from a few weeks of
injury concerns to
play for England during the international period.
Santi, as much as he is one of my favorites, knows he is probably
playing in his final seasons and at his age and with his recent
injury record, his best is behind him
whilst Ozila and Sanchez are in their prime.
We came second to Leicester mainly because of the much greater demands on the squad from our competing intensely on 3 fronts,
playing 2 tough games every week without any respite —
whilst Leicester had only the League to focus on, with only one game a week and crucially were given 2 weeks off to rest and recover their energy levels — over a period in which we were handicapped by many
injuries, loss of form and confidence to key players
whilst Leicester had no such handicaps.
To be honest, over the whole last decade I am appalled by how Wenger collects timid players, ESPECIALLY 9 stone dripping wet midfield dwarfs, whom he generally
plays out of postion on the right wing for a spell, thus undermining their condidence, most of them
injury prone, yet kept unproductively for years and years, on the treatment table
whilst still pocketing huge wages and rarely
playing 100 % even when fit.
I'd
play Mertesacker and Chambers, Koscielny has been
playing through
injury whilst Mertesacker has been away, he needs to be rested so he can recover before the
injury becomes serious.
We need to sell him in January, or he needs another
injury, because he's directly affecting the results
whilst he's
playing for us.
Of course I think most will agree they would prefer Alexis to
play as the forward, but it will also be determined on fitness, with Walcott having been in training for weeks,
whilst Alexis has of course only just returned from
injury.
Ramsey struggled with
injuries at the start of the season, but has proven to be somewhat of a success
whilst playing on the right hand side.
Tarkowski hadn't started a Premier League game until and
injury to Ben Mee saw him
play the last four games of the 2016/17 season
whilst goalkeeper Nick Pope got his first start in the Premier League at Anfield in September of this season following the
injury to Tom Heaton.
Obviously Robbie Brady and Steven Defour, both with long term
injuries, are out and
whilst both Tom Heaton and Jon Walters have been back in action this week for the under - 23s, neither of them are likely to be involved with Sean Dyche himself
playing down a possible return for Heaton.
Essentially, Liverpool have lost their best attacking
played in Sadio Mane to
injury,
whilst other two starts up top, Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino are expected to be jaded after a lack of time to recover from
playing in Brazil only a few days before today's kick off.
Right back for most of the season, and then left back when the
injury list grew, he was constantly
played out of position so,
whilst still inexcusable, his bad performances are at least understandable and forgivable.
I, along with the majority of the media and millions of vocal fans, have been slaughtering him all season, but he could so easily have packed the midfield,
played Memphis up top and left Rashford on the bench, so
whilst in reality the
injuries have worked in his favour, he took the gamble and it has so far paid off.
Sadio Mane has been ruled out for up to six weeks following a hamstring
injury picked up
whilst playing for Senegal.
Theo Walcott will receive an injection today in order to push him closer to a return from
injury but he will not feature tomorrow,
whilst he is also unlikely to
play against Galatasaray next week.
Wilshere's
injury - interrupted season led to fears that a World Cup campaign may result in an additional setback for the young Englishman, but Pearce confirms what Arsenal fans have been hoping for, The Arsenal midfielder had become a very hot property and was well on his way to cementing a place in the Three Lions team for the World Cup, but he suffered a hairline fracture in his foot
whilst playing for England against Denmark, after a challenge by Liverpool's Daniel Agger.
The Wales international has become
injury prone
whilst playing at Real Madrid, and this is a concern for the Champions League holders.
Trevoh Chalobah is arguably amongst the finest defensive prospects in Europe and, owning to an ankle ligament
injury suffered during the Under - 19 European Championships, will train with Conte's group when he returns to fitness
whilst playing Development Squad football, before being appraised for a loan move in January.
Kasey Palmer made a late substitute appearance as Huddersfield beat Newcastle United 1 - 0 to make it two wins from two games,
whilst Izzy Brown is recovering from a hamstring
injury suffered
playing for Brighton on the opening weekend.
As for Jones,
whilst I believe he has the potential to be a very good player, he is definitely
injury - prone, and I don't think we would want to rely on him being able to
play 40 + games a season.
Following on from the news that Robin Van Persie will be out of action for at least three weeks after picking up yet another ankle
injury in the 2 - 1 win over Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, Theo Walcott appeared to have either twisted or sprained his ankle
whilst playing for England.
We really need to pull ourselves together, but it may not happen
whilst we have
injuries to key players such as Barkley and now Miralles (who was weirdly rested for two games and then
played 22 minutes against Liverpool being pulling a muscle).
While Tuesday night was mainly a night for celebration, with Gareth Bale once again at his scintillating best, single handily carving out Spurs» two second half goals for Peter Crouch and Roman Pavlyuchenko
whilst taking a part one of Europe's best full - back in Maicon, there was a significant negative to come out of the game and that was the second half absence of Dutch
play - maker Rafael Van Der Vaart, scorer of Tottenham's first goal and the catalyst upon which a memorable night was founded, with the former Hamburg and Real Madrid sensation now set to miss the trip to Bolton as he continues to nurse a hamstring
injury which has been hampering him for the last month or so.