The manager told reporters via a Zoom pre-match press conference video call “Sebastien Haller is doing better, we will see how he is once we finish today. He is getting closer. Whether he is ready to play is a different thing. Felipe Anderson won’t be available for the game.”
Claret and Hugh understand Haller has actually suffered from two minor injuries to his hip and his groin that has kept him out of the matchday squad for four games but he trained on Friday and again yesterday as he approaches a return to the matchday squad.
Suggestions that his absence has been linked to a contract dispute with Frankfurt and/or reaching a 30 appearance threshold triggering a payment have been described as nonsense by club insiders.