Valentin Barco forfeits to treat a sprained ankle contracted during the match Thursday evening during the C4 quarter-final return leg, Samir El Mourabet will have to change midfield pairing.
This season, the kid from the City of Ill has teamed up with “El Colo” twenty-three times, sometimes but quite rarely in a three-way environment during the Liam Rosenior era. Since his arrival, Gary O’Neil has sought to stabilize this sector of play and his preference has more often gone towards the El Mourabet/Barco duo (twelve times).
“I was surprised to learn that this is his first professional season”
Apart from Nantes in the league and against Reims in the Coupe de France, Samir El Mourabet started sixteen of the eighteen…
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