{"id":439932,"date":"2026-02-22T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:20:08","slug":"sunderland-team-news-vs-fulham-dennis-cirkins-absence-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439932\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland team news vs Fulham &#038; Dennis Cirkin&#8217;s absence explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Trai Hume moves to left-back to cover for the injured Reinildo, with Dennis Cirkin missing from the squad. Boss Regis Le Bris says Cirkin has suffered a &#8220;small injury during training, not too serious&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Noah Sadiki, Habib Diarra and Enzo Le Fee are in midfield, with Angulo and Ta Bi supporting Brian Brobbey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Reinildo is missing for a month with a knee injury. Hume, who has been playing on the right side of the attack in recent weeks, will start at left-back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Xhaka has missed the last five games with an ankle injury and his return is a major boost for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/sunderland?ref=au\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Cats<\/a>, but Le Bris clearly feels the captain is not quite ready to start.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  SUNDERLAND: Roefs, Mukiele, Ballard, Alderete, Hume; Sadiki, Diarra, Le Fee, Ta Bi, Angulo, Brobbey\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  SUBS: Ellborg, Geertruida, Talbi, Rigg, Mayenda, O&#8217;Nien, Mundke, Isidor, Xhaka\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  FULHAM: Leno, Tete, Anderson, Bassey, Sessegnon, Berge, Iwobi, Wilson, Smith-Rowe, Kevin, Raul\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  SUBS: Lecomte, Castagne, Diop, Cuenca, Reed, Cairney, King, Bobb, Muniz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trai Hume moves to left-back to cover for the injured Reinildo, with Dennis Cirkin missing from the squad.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}