Newcastle's Merino to 行方不明になる Bournemouth 衝突/不一致 with 支援する 傷害

Nov 3 (Reuters) - Newcastle 部隊d midfielder Mikel Merino will 行方不明になる Saturday's 首相 League game against Bournemouth with a lower 支援する 緊張する but the team have enough depth to 対処する with the Spaniard's absence, 経営者/支配人 Rafa Benitez has said.

Merino, who joined Newcastle on 貸付金 from Borussia Dortmund before recently making his move 永久の by 調印 a five-year 取引,協定, 選ぶd up the 傷害 against Liverpool last month and 行方不明になるd last week's 1-0 loss at Burnley.

The 21-year-old 得点する/非難する/20d in the 1-0 勝利,勝つ over 地階 味方する 水晶 Palace in Newcastle's last home game but Benitez said his compatriot 直面するs a (一定の)期間 on the sidelines after 悪化させるing the 傷害.

"Merino will be out for at least a couple of weeks. We will see how he is doing," Benitez told a news 会議/協議会 on Friday, before 追加するing Merino would 行方不明になる Spain's Under-21 2019 European 選手権 qualifiers against アイスランド and Slovakia this month.

"He will not go away with the 国家の team and he will not be 利用できる for this game. We will have to wait and see how his lower 支援する is.

"He was feeling the 苦痛 the other day. We know he is not 利用できる so we have to concentrate on the other players, and I think it is 罰金."

Benitez said he had at least four 選択s to 取って代わる Merino and could also play Congo defender Chancel Mbemba as a 一時しのぎの物,策 midfielder against Eddie Howe's 19th-placed 味方する.

"We have four or five midfielders. We have (Mohamed) Diame, (Henri) Saivet, (Isaac) Hayden and (Jonjo) Shelvey, and if we need... we can bring Mbemba in as a midfielder - he played there in the Africa Cup of Nations. I think we have enough 団体/死体s."

Newcastle, who have 14 points from 10 games and sit ninth in the (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する, have not been beaten in nine of their last 10 league games at St James' Park. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)

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