Enzo Le Fee is available in Sunderland’s games against West Bromwich Albion. Sky Sportsafter missing six weeks through an injury.
The central midfielder financing and signed in one of the most high-profile championship deals for Windows from Rome in January, suffering a hamstring injury against Hull City on February 22nd in the only home loss of the season.
But Le Fee is currently competing in Saturday’s lunchtime game at playoff rival West Brom – Live On Sky Sports+.
Sunderland head coach Regis Le Bliss says he will be cautious about LE fees upon his return ahead of the final seven games of the league season and the possibility of a playoff schedule.
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Le Fee has been acting as a leftist for most of the season, but may eventually play in his preferred central midfield role in Tommy Watson Fit, tied up by Romain Mundle and Brighton, after returning to the international break.
“I hope he will see him in the middle because this is his best position,” Le Bliss said. “We’re trying to connect other midfielders now.”
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Le Fee scored once and set another in eight appearances for Sunderland after arriving from Rome.
Sunderland, hoping to return to the Premier League in eight years, is fourth at the table, 15 points ahead of sixth-placed West Brom.
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Le Fee’s modest foot restraint from the pitch at halftime vs. Hull told us that many people can’t find it. He injured his hamstring early in the half, but was somewhat limited. Fans were surprised to see him being deleted. He questioned whether that was a mistake.
He had been starting all the games since signing up to that point. This caught up with him. But he’s back now. And for the first time, you can play with Manru.
So far, Le Fee has featured mainly on the left, rather than on the position he likes. Still, his quality glowed from the central area he was used to picking up.
His debut had a moment with Burnley. He took the ball in half of himself, rolled in front of him, flicked it skillfully over Connor Roberts before driving on his left flank and whipped with the ball on the outside of his boots wrapped in Clarett’s defense, finding Wilson Izidor.
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Enzo Le Fee has stylishly scored his first goal for Sunderland
He averaged 4.28 progressive carry (89th percentile), 2.67 carry on the final third (89th percentile), and 3.08 passes to the final third (90th percentile) with a predicted support goal of 0.28 per 90 (96th percentile).
His sin was also defensively shown, culminating in a 2.94 tackles (96th percentile) and an intercept (96th percentile) of 1.07. He embraced Le Bliss’ offensive style of ball.
In the central role, Le Fee has skills, pace and power ahead of him in Jobe Bellingham, Patrick Roberts and Mundle.
Le Bliss, who brought Le’s fees at French club Lorient, says Central Midfield is “his best position” and plans to bring him back to that role.
He added:
Along with Dan Neal (Captain), Chris Rigg and Bellingham, Sunderland has four elite centre midfield options for the playoffs. And in May, Le Fee may be the biggest game changer of all of them.
