ELIEZER Mayenda's wait for his first taste of Sunderland action was delayed after the striker felt a slight twinge in his hamstring in training on Friday.
The teenage striker hasn't yet featured for the Black Cats having suffered a hamstring injury in his first training session after joining from Sochaux in the summer. But after playing the full 90 minutes for the Under-21s in a behind closed doors game against Hibs on Monday, Mowbray planned to name Mayenda in his matchday squad for Saturday's visit of the Canaries.
However, those plans changed on Friday/
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Mowbray explained: "It's a very, very minor setback. I think he probably could have been on the bench but if he's telling the medical department he's feeling his hamstring a little bit, even though he finished the whole training session on Friday, I made the call.
"If he's feeling his hamstring and telling the medical department, I don't think it's worth the gamble.
"He's nearly there, he's nearly ready, he's done three or four full training sessions and played an Under-21s game against Hibs.
"He'll be in and around it over the next week or two, I'm sure. It just wasn't worth the gamble of throwing him in if he's feeling anything, so we left him out."
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