Newcastle United are susceptible to dropping one other key participant forward of their Premier League conflict in opposition to Arsenal, following the information of Sandro Tonali’s ban.
The 23-year-old midfielder, who solely joined Newcastle from AC Milan in July, got here off the bench in the course of the Magpies’ 1-0 Champions League defeat to Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.
Nevertheless, that would be the final time he options for the membership till August, with the Italian additionally set to overlook the Euro 2024 event in Germany ought to his nation qualify.
In the meantime, fellow midfielder Bruno Guimaraes may give Eddie Howe one other headache as he prepares to face Arsenal in simply over a weeks’ time.
That’s as a result of the Brazilian has already been booked 4 occasions this season, and only one extra reserving in opposition to Wolves on Saturday would see him suspended for Newcastle’s following league sport in opposition to the Gunners.
The Tyneside membership have their Carabao Cup Spherical of 16 conflict in opposition to Manchester United sandwiched in between these two fixtures, as Newcastle search revenge for final season’s remaining.
However fortuitously for Guimaraes, bookings in that competitors won’t carry over to the Premier League, that means he should merely keep away from choosing up a card at Molineux with the intention to play in opposition to Arsenal.
Talking after Newcastle’s 4-0 win over Crystal Palace final weekend, Howe was requested if he would try and tone down the 25-year-old’s aggression on the pitch.
Though the Magpies boss admitted that his aggression was a part of Guimaraes’ model of play, stating: “It’s like several participant, reining in [his aggression] possibly not since you take one thing away from his pure sport.
“It’s the bookings which might be pointless that we need to attempt to take out of our video games.
“The foundations now imply there will probably be extra yellow playing cards so the referees [have] positively tightened up over the summer time by way of self-discipline, time-wasting and a great deal of little issues to the sport the place you possibly can and a few of our gamers have picked up a yellow card for nothing, or perceived nothing.
“Extra yellow playing cards means extra suspensions so we have now to watch out. However actually, I don’t need to be taking aggression out of anybody’s sport, it’s the indiscipline ones that we need to attempt to eradicate.”
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