Austin Out For Middlesbrough Game
Claude Puel has given the injury news ahead of the visit of Middlesbrough and it isn't good news on the Charlie Austin front, find out this and the other injury news here.
Charlie Austin will miss the clash on Sunday with the shoulder injury he sustained in the Europa League game last night although Puel has confirmed that the extent of it is not yet clear.
"For the moment, I don’t have all the news. He’s not available for Sunday, and we will see later what the full answer is and how long he will be out for.
"it’s a disappointment for him, because he has had a good first part of the season, but it’s important for the team to have a good answer. We will see the quality of other players.”
Two players who could come in and replace Austin are Jay Rodriguez and Sofiane Boufal who both missed out on Thursday's match with minor knocks as the manager confirmed.
"I hope we can recover Rodriguez and Boufal for this game,” said Puel.
"They were a little injured for yesterday, and it’s important to have all the players available for the next games."
Another bit of good news is that Dusan Tadic appears to have come through his substitute appearance without any issues and looked to have got the confidence to get stuck in without fear of further damage, although Puel is still cautious about the Serbian.
"I hope we will see this. He has had just a few training sessions with the group after three weeks out and it’s important he comes back step by step."
"Normally he would go to start and we will see how many times he can play.”
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