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Fulham manager Marco Silva delivered some mixed team news ahead of Fulham’s crunch match with Bournemouth on Saturday.
Two players are definitely out, and two are being assessed after struggling with illness, but we could see a welcome return for Kevin.
“Ryan Sessegnon, Alex Iwobi, they are going to be out of the game,” Silva confirmed. “We had a difficult week with one or two. We have to keep assessing every single day.
“Sander is through the illness, but he's been the one that is suffering a little bit more. He felt something in the week of Brentford, was one of the reasons why he was not recovered for Villa, and last week he had probably a bigger one, and it’s had an impact on him.
“He's trying his best, he's going to be in contention for the game. We have to assess him, to see if he's going to be in condition to start.
“Raúl, the same situation as well, we have to assess him. He's not training full week with the team, and we have to assess him before the game, too. But both are going to be in contention, and tomorrow I'm going to take a decision related with that situation.”
Fulham have been without Kevin since the win in Sunderland in February, at a time when the winger was really beginning to find his feet in the team.
“Kevin is going to be back in contention,” Silva revealed. “Long period without games, but a good week from him with the team, and he's going to be in contention to the game.
“It's important for us. It's been a very difficult season, in that aspect of game. In certain periods, we have been without key players for us.
“Unfortunately for us, almost more than half of the season just with one striker, squeezing Raúl as much as we can. It’s not a normal situation, waiting a long period to see Rodrigo Muniz back in the best form possible.
“Of course, Raúl has been doing an incredible job and doing everything for the team, even sometimes under some difficulties he's doing his maximum as always for the team. And with Kevin, it’s more or less the same situation.
“Probably in the best moment of him, when he's really adapted, when he's become decisive for us and a threat for the oppositions, he took a really difficult injury that completely broke the momentum for him and for the team.
“Now he's back, probably with two/three months with no football he’s not in his best physical point of view, but we need him for the next three games, and he's going to be there for us to use him in the best way possible.”
Fulham possible starting lineup:
Leno; Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson; Berge, Lukic; Wilson, King, Chukwueze; Jimenez
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It is as you were on the injury front for Bournemouth, who are still missing Julio Soler (thigh), Lewis Cook (thigh) and Justin Kluivert (knee) but have no fresh concerns from the win over Palace.
Kroupi's penalty last time out marked the 19-year-old's 12th goal of the Premier League season, the joint-most for any teenager in their debut campaign in the competition, alongside Robbie Keane from 1999-00.
Only four players have ever scored more Premier League goals in a single season before turning 20 - Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen (twice), Romelu Lukaku and Nicolas Anelka - and Kroupi should continue just behind Evanilson in an untouched XI.
Bournemouth starting lineup:
Petrovic; Jimenez, Hill, Senesi, Truffert; Adams, Scott; Rayan, Kroupi, Tavernier; Evanilson
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