Saints Injury News Ahead Of The Visit Of Arsenal
Ralph Hasenhuttl has been giving the media an update on the injury issues for Saturday's sell out game against the Gunners, find out here who is going to be fit and who may miss the game.
Ralph Hasenhuttl has been giving his press conference ahead of the game against Arsenal at St Mary's and has confirmed that there are no fresh injury concerns.
Lyanco and Alex McCarthy have taken part in their second week of training and seemingly have no issues and the question there is whether he will use either of them in the squad on Saturday.
There seems to be a non injury issue with Jan Bednarek after the Polish defenders failure to play against Manchester City and it could be that after the debacle against Chelsea that Lyanco is slotted in at the back.
With Fraser Forster in fine form it is unlikely that McCarthy will start the game, but he could return on the bench in the place of Willy Caballero after a four month lay off.
Here is what Ralph had to say:
"Up until yesterday everybody was fit, today we have one or two smaller issues in the session but so far nothing I can see as a problem for the weekend.”
One man who will return to the squad will be Armando Broja who could not play against his parent club last weekend.
"Broja on his best level is definitely a player that can help us but it’s important that he finds his way back to his best performances and this is the hope for the weekend.”
So it looks like Ralph has his entire squad to pick from this weekend and that has to be a help, there are certainly a player or two in the squad who did not perform to the level required last time out and that is an understatement.
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