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Leicester are forced to push James Justin's comeback to next month after the defender suffered a 'reaction' to his recovery from serious knee injury in blow to Brendan Rodgers

James Justin's return to action for Leicester has been pushed back to next month after he suffered ‘a reaction’ to his recovery from a serious knee injury.

Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers had hoped to have Justin, who has been out since damaging his anterior cruciate ligament in February, available this month and the 23-year-old had been pencilled in to play for Leicester Under-23s against Tottenham on November 23.

Yet Rodgers revealed that the club have had to put the brakes on Justin’s comeback bid. He said: ‘He had trained with the first-team squad for a few weeks and was looking very good.