DREAM TEAM brings you all the latest injury and suspension news ahead of Game Week 8 in one easily digestible dose.
First of all, not strictly injury or suspension news but very much in the same family, there is uncertainty once again over the availability of the Premier League’s CONMEBOL players following the scheduling of the latest international break.
South American stars set to play for their clubs on Saturday have less than 40 hours to recover between fixtures with a significant portion of that time spent travelling back to England.
Alisson (£3.9m), Fabinho (£2.4m) and Thiago Silva (£3.7m) were all ruled out by their respective gaffers early on after featuring for Brazil against Uruguay in the early hours of Friday morning.
Raphinha (£3.4m) starred for Tite’s side with two goals on his full international debut and may feature for Leeds on Saturday unless Marcelo Bielsa and his team believe the winger is fatigued upon his return.
The 24-year-old played 70 minutes for Brazil and is unlikely to play the full 90 against Southampton but he may feature in some capacity.
Dean Smith has said Emi Martinez (£3.2m) and Douglas Luiz (£1.5m) will be included in Aston Villa’s matchday squad with the Villains set to face Wolves at 3pm on Saturday.
In contrast, Pep Guardiola has said Brazilian duo Ederson (£3.6m) and Gabriel Jesus (£4.4m) won’t feature against Burnley.
And Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has followed suit by ruling out Edinson Cavani (£4.0m) and Fred (£1.7m) following their involvement in the awkwardly-timed World Cup qualifiers.
All the aforementioned players involved in European action midweek should be available for selection.
Elsewhere, Ferran Torres (£3.7m) sustained a broken metatarsal while on duty for Spain and could be sidelined for as long as three months.
Manchester City have been compensated somewhat as Ilkay Gundogan (£3.9m) is available for selection again, so too is Oleksandr Zinchenko (£3.3m).
Rafa Benitez confirmed full-back pair Lucas Digne (£3.1m) and Seamus Coleman (£2.3m) have resumed training but this weekend still comes too soon for Richarlison (£3.8m) and Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.7m).
A mixed bag for Liverpool: as well as the absent Brazilians, Curtis Jones (£2.5m) reported back from England Under-21s with an injury but Trent Alexander-Arnold (£4.8m) has regained fitness – Diogo Jota (£4.2m) seems to have shaken off his issue as well.
Despite worries about a possible injury, Romelu Lukaku (£6.0m) is ‘doing fine’ and ‘will play tomorrow’ according to Tuchel.
However, Antonio Rudiger (£4.1m) will miss out alongside Silva to leave Chelsea somewhat light in defence by their usual standards.
Arsenal
Injured: Granit Xhaka
Suspended: None
Aston Villa
Injured: Leon Bailey, Morgan Sanson, Trezeguet, Keinan Davis, Bertrand Traore (doubt)
Suspended: None
Brentford
Injured: Joshua Dasilva, Mads Sorensen, Shandon Baptiste
Suspended: None
Brighton
Injured: Steven Alzate, Danny Welbeck
Suspended: None
Burnley
Injured: Ben Mee, Matej Vydra (doubt), Dale Stephens, Charlie Taylor (doubt)
Suspended: None
Chelsea
Injured: Christian Pulisic, Reece James (doubt), N’Golo Kante (doubt), Antonio Rudiger, Hakim Ziyech
Suspended: None
Crystal Palace
Injured: Eberechi Eze, Nathan Ferguson
Suspended: None
Everton
Injured: Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison, Andre Gomes (doubt), Alex Iwobi (doubt), Fabian Delph
Suspended: None
Leeds
Injured: Patrick Bamford, Robin Koch, Luke Ayling, Kalvin Phillips (doubt)
Suspended: None
Leicester
Injured: James Justin, Wesley Fofana, Jonny Evans, Wilfred Ndidi, Jannick Vestergaard (doubt)
Suspended: None
Liverpool
Injured: Harvey Elliott, Thiago Alcantara, Curtis Jones
Suspended: None
Man City
Injured: Ferran Torres
Suspended: None
Man United
Injured: Raphael Varane, Harry Maguire
Suspended: None
Newcastle
Injured: Martin Dubravka, Paul Dummett
Suspended: None
Norwich
Injured: Christoph Zimmermann, Sam Byram
Suspended: None
Southampton
Injured: Che Adams, Jack Stephens
Suspended: James Ward-Prowse
Tottenham
Injured: Steven Bergwijn, Ryan Sessegnon, Ben Davies
Suspended: None
Watford
Injured: Peter Etebo, Josh King (doubt), Christian Kabasele
Suspended: None
West Ham
Injured: Ryan Fredericks, Vladimir Coufal (doubt)
Suspended: None
Wolves
Injured: Pedro Neto, Jonny, Francisco Trincao (doubt)
Suspended: None
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