Rowett’s Fitness Update: Lascelles, James & Fatawu

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Rowett’s Fitness Update: Lascelles, James & Fatawu

Jamaal Lascelles and Jordan James have trained this week but their fitness will need to be assessed before Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship contest against Norwich City.

2026-02-26T14:15+00:00

by Sam Stevens

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26 Feb, 2026

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Rowett’s Fitness Update: Lascelles, James & Fatawu

Jamaal Lascelles and Jordan James have trained this week but their fitness will need to be assessed before Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship contest against Norwich City.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-26T14:15+00:00

Rowett’s Fitness Update: Lascelles, James & Fatawu

Jamaal Lascelles and Jordan James have trained this week but their fitness will need to be assessed before Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship contest against Norwich City.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-26T14:15+00:00

Rowett’s Fitness Update: Lascelles, James & Fatawu

Jamaal Lascelles and Jordan James have trained this week but their fitness will need to be assessed before Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship contest against Norwich City.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-26T14:15+00:00

Rowett’s Fitness Update: Lascelles, James & Fatawu

Jamaal Lascelles and Jordan James have trained this week but their fitness will need to be assessed before Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship contest against Norwich City.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-26T14:15+00:00

Gary Rowett has provided an update on Leicester City’s fitness situation
We host Norwich City at King Power Stadium on Saturday (12:30pm kick-off)
The Foxes are currently 22nd in the Sky Bet Championship table on the back of two successive away draws
Jamaal Lascelles and Jordan James have trained, while Abdul Fatawu could be involved again after returning at Boro

The Canaries visit King Power Stadium for a lunchtime 12:30pm kick-off, as Gary Rowett’s Leicester City look to build on successive draws at Stoke City and Middlesbrough with all three points on home soil.

We’ve had some key senior players out over previous weeks, but work continues at Seagrave to get them back in contention, as Lascelles and James trained this week.

“Jamaal [and] Jordan trained today,” the Foxes Manager told reporters on Thursday. “It’s assessing those players tomorrow, making good, sensible decisions.

“We’re looking at Saturday but we’re also looking at the games after that. We want players available for long periods, not just a game or two, to help out.

Jamaal Lascelles was in training this week.

“Those two, for example, would be important players to get back in the squad. If we can do that safely, we will do.

“We can’t afford too many more [injuries]. In think we’re okay. I think everyone got through the [Boro] game. We’ve spoken about low numbers in different areas of the pitch.

“Being a Tuesday night game, it allows us a couple of days to just manage those players and give them a little bit extra recovery space and time if we need to. Hopefully, by the weekend, hopefully we’ll be fresh and ready to go.

“I think that’s a big thing at this stage of the season, making sure we’ve got the right energy. I don’t think massive training load is necessarily important.

“We should be in a similar position, hopefully with one, maybe a couple, of players back at least available for the bench."

Abdul Fatawu missed the trip to Stoke last weekend, but emerged from the bench at Boro, with Rowett hoping he can play a role again on Filbert Way on Saturday.

Jordan James continues to work towards fitness.

“I think he’ll be fit enough to start,” he explained. “I don’t necessarily think it was a case of managing minutes. It’s hard to do that in the frenzy of the Championship.

“Sometimes you have to make reasoned decisions. If I’d have started him, there’d be every chance he probably wouldn’t be available for this game at all.

“There hasn’t been any reaction for that, he’s trained this morning, so I think he’ll be good to go however we want to use him. He’s obviously a very good player so we obviously want him available.”

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