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<\/p>\nBirmingham City host Stoke City at St Andrew’s in their next Championship game on Saturday (3pm)<\/p>\n
Bright Osayi-Samuel of Birmingham City(Image: )<\/p>\n
Bright Osayi-Samuel has re-joined Birmingham City<\/a> training and is available for Saturday\u2019s clash against Stoke City.<\/p>\n The right-back has missed Blues\u2019 last seven matches due to his involvement in the Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria.<\/p>\n The Super Eagles finished third in the tournament and Osayi-Samuel<\/a> was a fixture in their line-up.<\/p>\n There was some concern online after Osayi-Samuel was substituted during Nigeria\u2019s third place play-off victory over Egypt with an injury, but he has since recovered and resumed training with his club.<\/p>\n FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK!<\/strong> All the latest Blues news on Birmingham Live\u2019s Birmingham City FC Facebook page<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHe is available,\u201d said Blues manager Chris Davies.<\/a> \u201cThere was a little something there but we\u2019ve had him checked out and he\u2019s trained today.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s back, which is great news, and congratulations to him for his performances and Nigeria\u2019s in the tournament, although they couldn\u2019t go on to win it they certainly did the country proud.\u201d<\/p>\n Blues will still be without Jack Robinson, Demarai Gray and Ethan Laird against Stoke \u2013 who have injury issues of their own.<\/a><\/p>\n The trio could return for Blues next month but left-back Alex Cochrane won\u2019t make a comeback until the latter stages of the season.<\/p>\n Davies commented: \u201cI would group Demarai, Jack and Ethan in terms of a timeline together. We\u2019re still a good few weeks away from them actually training, then once they get training they need to build a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201cThey all have different injuries but I think they\u2019ll be returning to training at a similar time, but we\u2019re talking well into February.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City host Stoke City at St Andrew’s in their next Championship game on Saturday (3pm) Bright Osayi-Samuel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,6452,748,55206,393,15957,4884,118022,16,15],"class_list":["post-714882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-fc","tag-bright-osayi-samuel","tag-britain","tag-demarai-gray","tag-england","tag-ethan-laird","tag-great-britain","tag-jack-robinson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115943379027425111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}