Newcastle United are set to be without at least five players for their match away to Arsenal on Saturday, with Anthony Gordon among those ruled out.
Newcastle United have a group of potential starters in line to miss Saturday’s game against Arsenal, either due to injury or suspension.
Joelinton has a yellow-card suspension after picking up his 10th booking in Newcastle’s recent game against Crystal Palace. The midfielder has already missed a fixture against Bournemouth, but as 10 yellows earns a two-game ban, he’s also out against Arsenal.
Then Tino Livramento has also been ruled out of the game, with Craig Hope reporting for the Daily Mail that Livramento is facing a battle to play again this season, let alone this weekend.
A player with more initial doubt about his availability was Anthony Gordon, with Hope’s Daily Mail report revealing that a scan on a hip injury revealed an issue, but that the player is expected to play again this season.
Despite the lack of complete certainty over Gordon’s fitness, he wasn’t ruled out of Saturday’s game until Eddie Howe’s pre-match press conference, in which Howe confirmed the player will miss the Emirates Stadium trip.
“Anthony won’t make the game; he hasn’t trained this week,” Howe said. “He won’t be fit in time for this game, but hopefully the next one.”
Fabian Schar and Emil Krafth are longer-term absentees, with neither expected back before May at the earliest.
Schar began the season as a starter, so his absence is certainly having an impact on Newcastle, but it’s a problem they’ve already been dealing with since January.
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