Newcastle United injury report ahead of Arsenal showdown

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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.”

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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.