FPL Gameweek 31 team and injury news: Press conference times and live updates

We’ll be bringing you injury updates from eight Premier League managers who are holding pre-match press conferences on Thursday.

The head coaches of Arsenal, Brighton and Hove Albion, Burnley, Crystal Palace, Leeds United, Leicester City, Southampton and Watford are all due to face the media today, and we’ll be summarising the key information on this page.

A dozen more top-flight bosses will take questions from reporters on Friday, when we’ll bring you our second team news round-up of the week.

WHEN ARE THURSDAY’S GAMEWEEK 31 PRESS CONFERENCES?

SOUTHAMPTON

Ralph Hasenhuttl said on Thursday that he wasn’t aware of any fresh injury concerns affecting his returning internationals, while Will Smallbone (Covid), Oriol Romeu (stomach illness) and Nathan Tella (groin) have all been back in training this week.

Alex McCarthy (hamstring) is back on the grass after an absence of almost four months, too, although is only in light training.


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