Leicester City will make a final decision on Wout Faes’ availability to face West Brom on Saturday morning after the Belgian defender missed training ahead of the game.
Faes was substituted at half-time in City’s 1-1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday with a dead leg and swelling in his thigh. He had gone down midway through the first half and received treatment, and while he was able to play on to the interval, he was then replaced by James Justin.
With a quick turnaround ahead of the trip to the Hawthorns, Faes remains a doubt, Enzo Maresca has said. He will be assessed first thing on Saturday to see if he’s capable of playing.
“We had a session this morning and he didn’t work,” Maresca said at his press conference on Friday lunchtime. “We’ll see if he improves for tomorrow and then we’ll take a final decision. But this morning, he didn’t work with us.”
City have no further injury problems from Wednesday night, so Callum Doyle remains the only player definitely out of Saturday’s game, the Manchester City loanee not yet able to return to full training after knee surgery in September. If Faes joins him on the sidelines, then there’s likely to be a decision between Conor Coady and Harry Souttar to start alongside Jannik Vestergaard.
Coady played in midweek but is yet to start two games in a row for City. Souttar, meanwhile, has only started one Championship game all season, the 2-0 win over his former club Stoke in October.