Filip Benkovic - missed Boro on Saturday, why?
NEIL HARRIS:
"Filip trained Saturday morning and he’ll play in the under-23s this afternoon. He had a good loan spell last year at Bristol City, but over the course of pre-season he played only 28 minutes and 45 minutes for Leicester City so he is short of match minutes.
"With the huge amount of games we’ve got training is very limited, you are always recovering or preparing for a game.
"So we made the decision that if Filip wasn’t going to start the game then he would be better off doing a different training pattern for us to get up to speed.
"He trained with the under-23s Saturday morning and had a strong, tough session and will get a lot of minutes today.
"Then we think he will be ready to come back into the group at the end of the week."
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