The injuries just keep on coming, don’t they?

Hickey is out with a hamstring injury until 2024, leaving the team with midfielder Vitaly Janelt as seemingly the only remaining option on the roster to play left back. I imagine his primary backup would be Ghoddos, or possibly Ben Mee? Mbeumo has been frequently deployed in that spot when chasing games, but surely he won’t be used there under normal circumstances.

Hopefully Flekken’s “dead leg” is a strictly temporary issue and he’ll be back out there against Liverpool on Sunday. He hasn’t exactly impressed this season, but Strakosha’s only start of the season was disastrous and he was barely challenged in goal on Saturday (although his distribution was pretty good).