Staff Reporter.
Jamie Vardy will miss Leicester City’s Premier League clash with Arsenal on Sunday due to a knee injury.
The 35-year-old has scored 10 goals in the Premier League this season and only recently returned from a hamstring problem which kept him out for two months.
Jamie got a knock on his knee but we hope in the next three to four weeks it responds well,’ said Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers. ‘He felt soreness on it the day after the Leeds game. It’s unfortunate.
Vardy was only two games into his comeback after a damaged hamstring had kept him out of action for nine weeks, but a knee injury sustained in the 1-0 win over Leeds last Saturday means a further absence of at least three weeks.
Leicester had also been due to give fit-again Wesley Fofana his first appearance of the season against Rennes in the Europa Conference League on Thursday, but the centre-back is now unavailable after contracting Covid-19.
Fofana has not played since last season after suffering a broken leg and damaged ankle ligaments in a friendly against Villarreal on the eve of this campaign.
The 21-year-old signed a new five-year deal this week and Rodgers hopes he may be clear to feature at Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday.
Patson Daka, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ademola Lookman and Ayoze Perez, all of whom are fit, are the other attacking options available to Rodgers.