Phil Hay delivers Augustin injury update as Thorp Arch slams doors shut
New Leeds United striker Jean-Kevin Augustin has resumed training and “appears to be over his hamstring strain”, according to Athletic journalist Phil Hay.
Augustin is still waiting for his first start with the club and missed the last three games through injury.
Even before that, though, he was struggling for match fitness.
The Championship season has now been suspended because of the Coronavirus outbreak and Thorp Arch was shut down on Wednesday with players now on individual fitness programs at home.
Hay said on the Athletic: “Augustin trained towards the back end of last week and appears to be over his hamstring strain.
“How quickly he [Augustin] would have come back into the 18 is for Bielsa to know but this break is a chance for him to get properly up to speed.”
Augustin and the rest of the Leeds players are now training at home for the foreseeable future.
While it would have been preferable to keep the players fit at Thorp Arch, that’s obviously impossible at the moment.
What it means for the bulk of Leeds players and Augustin specifically is hard to say.
The likelihood is that all the Leeds players will be off the peak fitness that Bielsa demands when they return to Thorp Arch.
That could mean Augustin starting full group training again on a level playing field and coming back into the 18 straight away.
As for starting, Patrick Bamford is not going to be dislodged by Tyler Roberts, Augustin or anyone else at the moment, with Leeds on a run of five wins and five clean sheets in a row.
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