West Ham United will have a host of absentees, for several different reasons, in their FA Cup clash on Sunday. Between Thilo Kehrer, Nayef Aguerd, Vladimir Coufal, Mohamed Kudus and Michail Antonio, you have players who will be missing against Bristol City due to injuries, transferring and international duty.
All we need is suspension and personal leave, and then we’d have the whole unavailable gamut totally run.
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Let’s break it all down. Coufal missed the nil-nil draw with Brighton, the final festive fixture of the period, due to an unspecified illness. Elsewhere Michail Antonio remains out with a knee injury. Additionally, Kurt Zouma and Lucas Paqueta remain out as longer term injury absentees.
Shifting gears to the Africa Cup of Nations, Kudus (Ghana) and Aguerd (Morocco) have now left the Irons squad to join their respective national teams.
Finally, Kehrer is on the move to AS Monaco, so he is very likely to miss out on this clash. And that is that.
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