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October 3, 2002
(Thursday)
Woody and Lucas
miss Ukraine trip
Terry Venables will
be forced to reshuffle his team to take on
Metalurg Zaporizhia after both Jonathan Woodgate and Lucas Radebe
were ruled out.
Both players will not travel to the Ukraine after failing to recover
from injuries, with Lucas Radebe having suffered a recurrence of the
knee and back problems that saw him miss virtually all of last
season.
Woodgate has been unable to recover from his hamstring injury in
time, and the race is now on to get the centre-half fit for Sunday's
trip to Aston Villa.
Skipper Dominic Matteo has made the trip, but he is still likely to
face a late fitness test, having been wheeled off the treatment table
for the Arsenal game when not quite at 100 per cent.
If fit, Matteo would most likely form a centre-half pairing with
either Michael Duberry, or Danny Mills with Ian Harte recalled to
left-back and Gary Kelly ar right-back.
Coming into the squad though is young reserve team defender Matthew
Kilgallon. The 18-year-old England youth defender is given his first
call up by Venables to the first team squad, and although unlikely to
feature, will almost certainly be on the bench.
Squad for Ukraine: Robinson, Martyn, Kelly, Harte, Dacourt, Viduka,
Kewell, Bowyer, Barmby, McPhail, Smith, Mills, Bakke, Seth Johnson,
Matteo, Duberry, Okon, Burns, McMaster, Kilgallon.
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