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Cifuentes: Nelson & Stolarczyk Back In Contention

Manager Martí Cifuentes has shared positive injury news on several players ahead of Saturday’s trip to Derby County.

2025-12-04T14:40+00:00

by Sam Jones

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04 Dec, 2025

Cifuentes: Nelson & Stolarczyk Back In Contention

Manager Martí Cifuentes has shared positive injury news on several players ahead of Saturday’s trip to Derby County.

Sam Jones

2025-12-04T14:40+00:00

Cifuentes: Nelson & Stolarczyk Back In Contention

Manager Martí Cifuentes has shared positive injury news on several players ahead of Saturday’s trip to Derby County.

Sam Jones

2025-12-04T14:40+00:00

Cifuentes: Nelson & Stolarczyk Back In Contention

Manager Martí Cifuentes has shared positive injury news on several players ahead of Saturday’s trip to Derby County.

Sam Jones

2025-12-04T14:40+00:00

Cifuentes: Nelson & Stolarczyk Back In Contention

Manager Martí Cifuentes has shared positive injury news on several players ahead of Saturday’s trip to Derby County.

Sam Jones

2025-12-04T14:40+00:00

Leicester City travel to face Derby County in the Sky Bet Championship on Saturday
Jakub Stolarczyk and Ben Nelson are back in team training ahead of that clash
Martí Cifuentes also revealed Wout Faes is training after coming off last weekend
Boubakary Soumaré (knee) is a doubt for the 12:30pm kick-off, however

We head to Pride Park for a Midlands derby this Saturday lunchtime (12:30pm kick-off) aiming to get back to winning ways following two successive defeats in the Sky Bet Championship.

And Cifuentes’ side could be boosted by the potential returns of Jakub Stolarczyk and Ben Nelson, with both now back in training in Seagrave this week following injuries.

The Polish shot-stopper hasn’t played since suffering an injury during last month’s clash with Middlesbrough, while England youth international Nelson made his first league start of the season in that home draw, but has since missed the last three due to an injury picked up at Norwich City.

“[Stolarczyk is] feeling good,” the Spaniard told the media on Thursday afternoon. “He had a full training week. Obviously, we were considering last week how much risk we wanted to take with him, but he’s been feeling very good and ready to play.

“It’s a little bit the same (for Nelson), good progress. He has been training with the team and feels very positive, so it’s definitely positive news for us. He’s ready and he’s available so we will consider if we want to start with him or not.”

Another centre-back, Wout Faes, was forced off at half-time in the defeat to Sheffield United a week ago, having taken a cut to the face, but is recovering well, though Boubakary Soumaré is a doubt for the weekend.

“He (Faes) has been training with the team as well,” the 43-year-old revealed. “The fact is that he was bleeding a lot despite the stitches so it was difficult in the half-time, but during the week he has been feeling better. Now he’s ready for Saturday.

“We need to have some more tests with Bouba. He felt a little bit his knee and probably we need to consider in the next couple of days, when we will know more about it.”

All times GMT.

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