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Leicester City fans haven't had much chance to see their £19million deadline day signing in senior action this season.

Indeed, the only time Foxes fans will have been able to catch a glimpse of Caglar Soyuncu in the flesh is in one of the three games he has played for Steve Beaglehole's Under-23s.

Soyuncu is fit and ready to play for City, according to Claude Puel, and has been for over a month, but the Turkish international is yet to feature because of difficulties communicating with team-mates.

And that, of course, has not stopped him from featuring for his country. He started Sunday's 2-0 Nations League defeat to Russia - completing a full match for his nation for the fourth time since joining City. It was also a 14th consecutive start for his country.

Soyuncu started on the left of a back-four partnered by Serdar Aziz of Galatasaray, with Mehmet Zeki Çelik and Hasan Ali Kaldırım at right and left-back.

Mircea Lucescu set his side up in a 4-2-3-1 system - identical to Claude Puel's preferred choice of formation this season.

Russia started the aerial bombardment up to the imposing centre-forward that is Artem Dzubya early, with Soyuncu and co having to be on their guard.

The centre-forward was paying particular attention to Soyuncu early on, and the City defender got drawn out to the wing but fortunately for the Turks the cross didn't reach a Red shirt.

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With Turkey keen to play the ball out from the back, the 22-year-old was always making himself available for goalkeeper Sinan Bolat and creating space for his team-mates.

He would regular drift out to the left-hand side as Turkey looked to split the centre-back pairing whenever Bolat had posession. Soyuncu, vocally commanding, was also present at set-pieces in the Russia penalty area.

It was Russia who would open the scoring, though, through Roman Neustädter after 20 minutes.

A corner floated in toward the direction of Soyuncu wasn't dealt with and Neustädter tapped in from close range.

Aleksei Ionov nearly made it two soon after, when good work from Dzubya - who got across Soyuncu and played a searching ball toward the back post - wasn't rewarded by the attacker.

Soyuncy's eagerness to win the ball almost let Aleksandr Golovin in to double Russia's advantage, but the forward blazed over much to the relief of the City defender and the rest of those in white shirts.

Russia would double their lead on the 78th minute through substitute Denis Cheryshev, guiding in a first-time effort from the edge of a box from a cutback. The former Real Madrid winger was unmarked with Soyuncu's eyes on the wing waiting for the cross to come in.

It was a relatively quiet game for the City centre-back in a dull affair overall, but the qualities that convinced Puel and co to shell out were clear to see, with pace, organisation and an eagerness to play the ball on the floor standing out in Soyuncu's Sunday night outing.