Leicester City coach, Claude Puel, appears to have a midfield dilemma ahead of this weekend Premier League clash with Newcastle United.
The Frenchman will be without regular starlwart, Wilfred Ndidi, who received his second red card of the season against Brighton.
Ndidi has been a consistent feature in the Foxes midfield, with the other slot alternated among three players – Vicente Iborra, Adrien Silva and Hamza Choudhury.
Puel will have to pick from the trio to fill the huge void left by the 21-year-old.
”We have three solutions with [Vicente] Iborra, [Adrien] Silva and [Hamza] Choudhury also available so we will see for Saturday our midfield,” Puel told Leicester City’s official website.
”It’s different attributes than Wilfred and we have to find the solution to give a collective response.
”Wilfred has attributes to recover a lot of balls, he’s strong in midfield and we cannot replace him with the same attributes but we can replace him with a collective response by sharing this part of the job between all the players.”
Saturday’s clash will be the first time the Nigerian seats out any minute of Leicester league matches.
He had started all 31 of their previous games.
