Anyone know why...

[freeeki]

Giovani dos Santos replaced Chris Gunter on the bench last night against Stoke at the last minute?

10 minutes before kickoff the team was announced with Gunter on the bench, 1 minute to go and it was Giovani replacing him. Did he pick up an injury or what? I can't find anything anywhere about it. :shrug:

 

[ginol@14]

yeah i noticed that too
no mention on the OS .... must of pulled a muscle in the warm up

 

[freeeki]

How strange.

Perhaps Harry was planning to bring Giovani on to add some flair to our game or something? Although we had Campbell and Taarabt on the bench for that.

If Gunter was just dropped on a whim I think its quite unfair, given his great display in the FA Cup.