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Salis Abdul Samed update after Sunderland beat Cardiff City
Sunderland Echo
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09/03/2025
Phil Smith explains why Salis Abdul Samed missed Sunderland's win over Cardiff City in his regular #onthewhistle Q&A
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from Darren over who left this comment underneath our on our instant reaction video. Darren says,
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was Samad injured or have we just seen the end of him? Do you think? Yeah, so I asked
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Salees Abdul, Samad was obviously a surprise absentee from the squad and I asked for the
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briefs about this in his press conference afterwards and he said that Samad has picked
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up a calf injury. It's not a season ending one. I think by the sounds of it, it'll be about three
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or four weeks. So some are hopeful that he might be able to come back after the national break.
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Which is obviously the same kind of timescale as Enzo Le Fay at the moment. So it's not a major
00:35
injury, but I think the problem is obviously the challenge for Samad is that, you know,
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if he comes back after the national break, he then again has to try and rebuild his sharpness.
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He then has to again rebuild his match minutes and with the way the players and the team
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performing at the moment, that's obviously going to be quite difficult for him. So,
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although it's not the biggest injury in the world, it is obviously a fairly significant setback
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because time for him to sort of build his match fitness is really, really running out.
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So that is a real disappointment because I think ideally, I think at some point,
01:02
Labreece, if possible, would probably like to give Daniel or Job a breather ahead of a potential
01:06
playoff campaign just because of the sheer number of minutes they're playing. Hopefully,
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he will be able to do that towards the back end of the season if Samad does get back after the
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international break and gets to build some sharpness. But yeah, at the moment, it's another
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kind of frustration really in what has been a really frustrating season. So that was what was
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going on with Samad.
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