Newcastle United are in eighth place, at this November international break, with their next match eight days away, a visit from West Ham United for some Monday night football. Geordies boss Eddie Howe could be without the services of up to five players: Kieran Trippier, Callum Wilson, Dan Burn, Jamal Lascelles and Sven Botman.
In four of those cases, it’s an injury situation. With the fifth, it’s a disciplinary matter. So let’s get you all caught up
Kieran Trippier
Trippier suffered a hamstring injury back in October, and given the initial timeline, as was stated then, he should be nearing a return now. Of course, injuries are a very fluid situation, so we’ll see.
Callum Wilson
The forward has a knock on his back, and he should be in contention to feature against the Hammers.
Dan Burn
He’s suspended for the next game, due to five yellow cards accumulation.
Jamal Lascelles
As Lascelles said back on Oct 19: “I should be back on the grass soon and jogging in the next few weeks. It’ll take me a while to build up from there, but I’m happy to be ticking those boxes, and now it’s about getting my boots back on and progressing slowly that way.”
So of Newcastle’s two longer-term injury absentees, both of which are recovering from ACL tears, he is the who is closer towards making a return (we’ll cover the next one below).
Lascelles could be back in action come January.
Sven Botman
Said Howe nine days ago, in regards to Botman: “We hope Sven can begin light training in the next few weeks. If we see him before the end of the year, that would be a bonus. We are probably looking at more like January.”
It’s probably a late January return for Botman.
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