James Maddison visited a consultant on Wednesday as Leicester try to unravel a thriller knee harm after the midfielder returned from the World Cup with a recent downside. Maddison has no longer been in a position to coach together with his Leicester teammates since getting back from Qatar and can leave out Friday’s travel to Liverpool.
Maddison traveled to London with Mark Waller, the Leicester membership physician, on Wednesday to additional perceive the level of his factor. Maddison had injured the again of his knee in November earlier than the World Cup, for which he won remedy whilst away with England. The midfielder is now dominated out with a subject matter on the entrance of his knee. It is unclear how lengthy Maddison is about to be sidelined.
Maddison used to be integrated in Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the World Cup in spite of his preliminary knee downside however didn’t function in Qatar. He used to be pressured to take a seat out coaching periods throughout the early phases of the match however used to be an unused exchange in opposition to Wales, Senegal and France. Maddison’s sole England look got here in a 7–0 win over Montenegro in November 2019.
Leicester’s supervisor, Brendan Rodgers, clarified that Maddison is absent with a unique downside to the only he traveled to the World Cup with. “He was clearly getting treatment when he was out there and he and the medical team with England deemed him OK to train.”
“He used to be coaching and to be had for video games. He’s come again to right here, seemed to do a little paintings and he has felt some ache in a unique a part of his knee. The scientific staff has assessed that, checked out that. He attempted to head out directly to the sphere to do a little multidirectional paintings and he used to be getting a ache from it. The scientific staff has long past to peer the specialist, to get some other opinion on it to peer the place he is at.”
On Tuesday Rodgers, for the primary time in his managerial profession, canceled his gamers’ day without work as he introduced an inquiry into Leicester’s flat efficiency of their 3–0 house defeat to Newcastle on Boxing Day.