Andy Carroll suffers whiplash

Slaven Bilic told reporters that Andy Carroll is suffering a whiplash injury while admitting Reid, Byram and Feghouli have all suffered knocks.

During his pre match press conference Slav said “Carroll has got a bit of a whip lash injury, that is not my words, that is what I have been told from the physios, a whip lash injury. I went to a dictionary basically to find out what is that. He has a sore neck so hopefully he is going to be OK”

Asked by one reporter how he received the whip lash injury?

Slav replied: “It was the end of the game, I don’t know but he trained on Tuesday very hard, he was brilliant in training to be fair and then he reported some neck pain but as I said, hopefully he will be OK and we have a couple of them with knocks, We have Winston Reid with a knock, it’s a painful one. Sam Byram got a knock on his knee, it was swollen, so he didn’t train yesterday but he is on the pitch today so he should be OK and also Feghouli missed training yesterday because of some minor problems with achilles but I am very optimistic that all of them are going to be fit for the game on Saturday”.