Team news behind our football predictions: injuries and line-ups
Before every pick, our AI reads the latest injury, suspension and line-up headlines for both teams. Here is what it read for the matches of the next 3 days, what it meant for each pick, and the picks it made us drop.
Reports of Tottenham players returning from injury tilt slightly toward more goals, and a possible Leeds defensive return (Rodon) partly offsets this, so the news is mixed and does not rule the pick out.
The headlines supplied are generic pages (match sheets, stats pages, injury lists, previews) with no specific injury or line-up information, so they tell us nothing about this pick.
Headlines say a Lincoln title-winning player is ruled out and QPR's manager has a boost, which leans slightly towards the pick, but the headlines give no details.
The only relevant item is Aubameyang's decisive return for Deportivo (and Casado nearing fitness), which slightly raises the chance of goals; the home-side headlines are mostly about other clubs.
The Leganés items are stale previews of the Valladolid game, and the head-injury reports on Quadri Liameed don't clearly link him to Albacete or say whether he will play, so the news has no clear bearing on this pick.
Stuttgart's headlines are about a frustrating Champions League defeat at Galatasaray, which suggests midweek fatigue, and transfer talk around Demirovic; the Bremen-tagged items are mostly about other clubs, and no confirmed injuries or absences were supplied.
The only Sparta-specific headline says PSV beat them, but it does not match the supplied recent results and its timing is unclear. Nothing else bears on this match, and there is no injury news for either side.