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Matt Ritchie Out for Two Months With Ankle Injury Sustained in Carabao Cup Exit to Leicester

Newcastle winger Matt Ritchie will be out of action for the next two months, after sustaining an ankle injury during the Magpies' Carabao Cup exit to Leicester on Wednesday.

It was the narrowest of margins at St James' Park. After Yoshinori Muto's equaliser cancelled out James Maddison's first-half opener, penalties were required to separate the sides, with the visitors prevailing.

It was a tough one to take for Newcastle, and made all the tougher by the loss of Ritchie, who went off late in the first half after what looked a harsh challenge by Foxes midfielder Hamza Choudhury - later branded a 'horror challenge' by manager Steve Bruce.