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Birmingham Mail - Sport - West Bromwich Albion - West Brom News - West Brom: Major doubts for trip to Manchester United
PETER Odemwingie and Jerome Thomas are both major doubts for West Brom's weekend trip to Manchester United - as Roberto Di Matteo considers loaning out Ishmael Miller.
Odemwingie and Thomas, both of whom scored in the recent 3-2 win at Arsenal, have yet to train since picking up knee and calf injuries respectively.
Di Matteo believes the duo are unlikely to make Saturday’s game at Old Trafford unless they resume training in the next day or so.
“Peter has a problem with his knee. He over-extended it towards the end of our last game against Bolton so it’s good we had an international week but he’s still not okay.
“It was swollen after the game and we’d hoped he’d recover more quickly but the damage was worse than we thought. “He had a scan and it’s nothing serious but he needs more time.
Odemwingie has quickly become a fantasy manager's favorite after a bright start to his Premier League career. I, like surely many managers, have him at a discount and was looking to the trip to Old Trattford with no little apprehension. My plan was to drop him for this week and give up my 0.73 discount, and it looks more and more like that is the way to go. There are a lot of good options at forward this weekend - ChamWow, Carroll, and Tevez to name three off the top of my head. Odemwingie was never going to be on that list and it's probably best to start monitoring his progress for next week.
Why push them back into the line-up for a highly unwinnable game? This did just up the value of VDS and United's defense.
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