Injuries & suspensions update ahead of Gameweek 36: Dejan Kulusevski among absentees
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Unai Emery confirmed that Youri Tielemans and Marcus Rashford will not feature against Tottenham this evening.
Aston Villa will also be without the suspended Jacob Ramsey.
As for Spurs, Dejan Kulusevski has been ruled out for the remainder of the season having undergone knee surgery this week.
In brighter news for the North Londoners, Son Heung-min is expected to get more minutes following his comeback last weekend and there's an outside chance Lucas Bergvall will recover in time to play some part in the Europa League final on Wednesday night.
Ruben Amorim has hinted at a competitive starting XI at Stamford Bridge tonight despite his midweek final in Bilbao.
Diogo Dalot was pictured in training this week but it's not clear whether the wing-back is ready for first-team action.
Matthijs de Ligt, Ayden Heaven and Leny Yoro are notable doubts.
Brighton are boosted by the returns of Lewis Dunk and Joel Veltman from injury with Fabian Hurzeler also hopeful that Kaoru Mitoma will be able to feature against Liverpool on Monday night.
Additionally, Joao Pedro is available again having served his three-game suspension in full.
The newly-crowned champions only trained for the first time today having been given time off earlier in the week and so Arne Slot was not able to give any availability information in his pre-match press conference.
Chelsea's Nicolas Jackson is suspended for the rest of the domestic campaign having seen red against Newcastle last weekend.
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Pep Guardiola expects to have the same squad available for Saturday's FA Cup final.
The decorated tactician gave another positive update regarding Rodri but stressed that he has to wait for the club doctor's permission before the Ballon d'Or winner is ready for action.
Crystal Palace should be able to call upon the services of Adam Wharton at Wembley.
Newcastle are expected to be without Kieran Trippier at Arsenal on Sunday while Joe Willock only has a "slight chance" of making the trip.
More damaging is the doubt around Sven Botman, who has endured rotten luck with injuries for over a year now.
Eddie Howe admitted he wasn't clear on the Dutch centre-back's status but told journalists than he didn't think it was a serious issue.
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As for the Gunners, Mikel Arteta told reporters that Kai Havertz "looks in great shape" and so the German forward may play his first minutes since early February.
Late decisions will also be made on Gabriel Martinelli, Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard while Mikel Merino is set to serve a one-game suspension.
Taiwo Awoniyi was awoken from an induced coma earlier this week having suffered a serious abdominal injury against Leicester last time out.
Thankfully, the Nottingham Forest forward is said to be improving having undergone surgery but Nuno Espirito Santo remains understandably concerned, such was the severity of the situation.
Murillo may return for Forest's trip to West Ham on Sunday.
ARSENAL
Injuries: Takehiro Tomiyasu, Gabriel Jesus, Kai Havertz (doubt), Gabriel, Leandro Trossard (doubt), Declan Rice (doubt), Gabriel Martinelli (doubt)
Suspensions: Mikel Merino
ASTON VILLA
Injuries: Marcus Rashford, Youri Tielemans
Suspensions: Jacob Murphy
BOURNEMOUTH
Injuries: Enes Unal, Luis Sinisterra, Ryan Christie, Alex Scott, Dango Ouattara,
Suspensions: None
BRENTFORD
Injuries: Aaron Hickey (doubt), Josh Dasilva, Fabio Carvalho, Vitaly Janelt
Suspensions: None
BRIGHTON
Injuries: James Milner, Solly March, Ferdi Kadioglu, Georginio Rutter, Kaoru Mitoma (doubt)
Suspensions: None
CHELSEA
Injuries: Marc Guiu, Wesley Fofana, Christopher Nkunku
Suspensions: Mykhailo Mudryk, Nicolas Jackson
CRYSTAL PALACE
Injuries: Cheick Doucoure, Chadi Riad
Suspensions: None
EVERTON
Injuries: Orel Mangala, James Tarkowski, Jesper Lindstrom
Suspensions: None
FULHAM
Injuries: Reiss Nelson, Rodrigo Muniz, Timothy Castagne, Harrison Reed, Sasa Lukic, Antonee Robinson (doubt)
Suspensions: None
IPSWICH
Injuries: Chiedozie Ogbene, Wes Burns, Sammie Szmodics (doubt), Conor Townsend, Jaden Philogene, Arijanet Muric
Suspensions: None
LEICESTER
Injuries: Abdul Fatawu, Stephy Mavididi, Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Bobby De Cordova-Reid
Suspensions: None
LIVERPOOL
Injuries: Joe Gomez
Suspensions: None
MANCHESTER CITY
Injuries: Rodri, John Stones, Nathan Ake (doubt), Oscar Bobb (doubt)
Suspensions: None
MANCHESTER UNITED
Injuries: Lisandro Martinez, Ayden Heaven (doubt), Joshua Zirkzee, Diogo Dalot (doubt), Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt
Suspensions: None
NEWCASTLE
Injuries: Lewis Hall, Matt Targett, Joelinton, Kieran Trippier, Joe Willock (doubt), Sven Botman (doubt)
Suspensions: None
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Injuries: Callum Hudson-Odoi (doubt), Taiwo Awoniyi, Murillo (doubt)
Suspensions: None
SOUTHAMPTON
Injuries: Kyle Walker-Peters (doubt)
Suspensions: None
TOTTENHAM
Injuries: Radu Dragusin, Timo Werner, Dejan Kulusevski, James Maddison, Lucas Bergvall
Suspensions: None
WEST HAM
Injuries: Michail Antonio, Crysencio Summerville
Suspensions: None
WOLVES
Injuries: Sasa Kalajdzic, Enso Gonzalez, Yerson Mosquera, Leon Chiwone, Sam Johnstone, Hwang Hee-chan (doubt)
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