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.