Sidelined or substituted

Arsenal are set to name a weakened team for their Europa League tie against BATE Borisov on Thursday.

Laurent Koscielny, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez are among the players unlikely to play in Belarus.

Summer signings Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolasinac are also not expected to feature.

Danny Welbeck will miss out through injury as Arsenal look to build on the 3-1 victory from their European opener against Cologne.

Defenders Phil Jagielka and Michael Keane will miss Everton's Europa League group game with Apollon Limassol at Goodison Park because of injury.

Captain Jagielka has a hamstring problem while Keane has a cut foot.

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verb
past tense: sidelined; past participle: sidelined
cause (a player) to be unable to play on a team or in a game.

"he has been sidelined for the last six weeks with a fractured wrist"
synonyms: remove, take out, bench

"the injury sidelined their top reliever"
remove from the center of activity or attention; place in a less influential position.

"a respected lawyer will be sidelined by alcohol abuse"

However if he is injured during the match he's substituted for another player.

We call those sat on the bench substitutes, but the word substituted is interchangeable, both the player coming on and going off are substituted for each other.

izzythepush wrote:

We call those sat on the bench substitutes, but the word substituted is interchangeable, both the player coming on and going off are substituted for each other.

Until the 18th century, people would have said you're getting "substitute" and "replace" mixed up.

Just out of curiosity, what do you do to make the post appear like this?

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izzythepush wrote:

We call those sat on the bench substitutes, but the word substituted is interchangeable, both the player coming on and going off are substituted for each other.

We call those sat on the bench

izzythepush wrote:

We call those sat on the bench

another (odd) non-North American usage.

In British English, using "he is sat on the chair" or "she is stood by the gate" for "he is sitting on the chair" and "she is standing by the gate" is decidedly dialect/non-standard. Very common among Bristolians.