Injury Update: Debuchy Adds To Pardews Nightmare

Newcastle United's Mathieu Debuchy has been added to the ever growing injury list at the club. Whilst its not been uncommon for Newcastle to have one of the longest injury lists over the past few seasons, this one had been going ok until the last few weeks. Now manager Alan Pardew will be without at least five main players (including Remy) for their game against Spurs next weekend. Pardew confirmed the impact of the injuries saying;

“Most of the recent results have been impacted by the injuries we’ve sustained.

We took another one today in Mathieu who is a big player for us. He got a kick in the calf. I think it will stop him playing on Wednesday. Papiss is out. Loic is out. We are missing Cheick. And Colo is not with us. We need those players back, especially for games of the level of Chelsea.

I know I’ve said that Sammy Ameobi and Paul Dummett have played well here, but you’ve got to understand the level they are at.

When Chelsea play with the intensity they did today, it’s a tough ask to play in these type of games. You need your best players.

Tottenham is a game I would like to think we could get through and hopefully get a strong result. And after that, a lot of our big players will come back to us and I think we will be strong over the next 13 games. Then in the summer we have got work to do.”

I don’t think Papiss will be back for Spurs. He is obviously a player that we are looking to in these last 13 games to pick up his season. And maybe Cheick won’t make the game. We’ll have to wait and see.”