LUCAS PAQUETA is facing up to a period connected the sidelines with an ankle injury.
The West Ham midfielder, 27, limped retired of grooming astatine the London Stadium connected Tuesday arsenic Graham Potter‘s broadside hole to look Arsenal this weekend.
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GettyPaqueta had lone conscionable returned from a groin wounded which saw him miss the Hammers’ decision to Chelsea.
The Brazilian was assessed connected Wednesday by nine medics and is facing 3 to 4 weeks out.
That could spot Paqueta miss the adjacent 4 West Ham games, with Potter’s broadside facing Arsenal, Leicester, Newcastle and Everton earlier mid-March.
Paqueta started up beforehand against Brentford, with caller antheral Evan Ferguson connected the seat arsenic helium continues to retrieve from his ain ankle injury.
Potter is having to woody with an ever-growing wounded list.
The ex-Chelsea brag has lone been capable to play Paqueta, Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus unneurotic erstwhile since replacing Julen Lopetegui past month.
Bowen has returned from a breached foot, but Michail Antonio volition not play again this season.
Meanwhile, summertime signings Crysensio Summerville and Niclas Fullkrug are some sidelined with hamstring injuries.
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Vladimir Coufal besides missed Saturday’s decision to Brentford done injury.
Antonio has been moving connected his betterment from his fearfulness car clang successful December, with a grooming campy successful Dubai past week.
The plague of fittingness issues has sparked speech of the Hammers showing involvement successful Tammy Abraham.
The ex-Chelsea forward, 27, is connected indebtedness astatine AC Milan from Roma.
But it’s reckoned the 11-cap Englishman would yet similar a instrumentality to the Prem.
And a imperishable summertime power backmost to Britain could beryllium connected the cards.
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