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Leeds boss Marsch laments losing Sinisterra

Leeds United head coach Jesse Marsch believes he will be without Luis Sinisterra until after the World Cup break.

The Elland Road stadium club were expecting the winger to resume training this week.

However, he is struggling with a Lisfranc issue, which means his return is off until the World Cup break is over and the league resumes on Boxing Day.

“Stuart (Dallas) and Adam (Forshaw), again are injured but making progress," Marsch stated at his press conference.

Archie Gray will be, we think, on the pitch tomorrow, so starting getting closer to training with the full team. And then the only other update is Luis Sinisterra.

“Luis has a foot injury that it turns out to be more than what we initially originally thought it was. He wasn't making the progress that we were hoping for him to make over the last 10 days. So they did another scan and then they had a specialist looked at it, and they start to worry about it being a Lisfranc injury.

“It's a rare injury that controls the movement of the metatarsals and when that is ruptured, it can be a long recovery. We don't believe it's ruptured. We believe it's partially torn, which puts him in a little bit of a grey area, but probably out until after the World Cup break.

“So we'll know more about that today. And again, we're hopeful that it's a version that doesn't take off for long."

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