Much like how it has been for most of the past two or three seasons, Newcastle United have a multitude of injury concerns.They’ll travel to newly promoted Coventry on Monday night with so many injury concerns, we need two posts to cover it all. Part one covered Joelinton, Lewis Miley, William Osula and Amar Dedic. Here in part two, we go over Dan Burn, Nico Gonzalez, Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey.
There is a lot to get into so let’s just dive straight in.
Newcastle United vs Coventry City
Kickoff: Mon Oct. 12, 8pm, Coventry Building Society Arena
Newcastle United Team News: Part 1 Part 2
Newcastle United Detailed Injury List: go here
Newcastle United Team News vs Coventry City
Let’s start with big boy Burn, who is in the final stages of an ankle injury recovery. He’s a doubt at best for this match, with a return next weekend deemed to be much more likely. Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey (both of whom have thigh injuries) are on a very similar timeline.
We would be much more likely to see both of them back in the matchday squad a week from today, at earliest, when the Magpies host Aston Villa.
There is some good news though! Summer signing in the midfield, Nico Gonzalez has reportedly cleared concussion protocol, and is thus available for selection on Monday night.
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