How long Leicester’s Ricardo Pereira will be absent with broken leg
How long Leicester City’s Ricardo Pereira will be unavailable for selection due to breaking his leg because of an overzealous, immature challenge.
Star Foxes defender Ricardo has broken his leg. The fibula to be exact. Nasty. Actually, it was a “nasty tackle” in the words of club legend Marc Albrighton, via Liverpool’s Tyler Morton who did the damage.
Morton wasn’t red carded and hasn’t received retrospective punishment; presumably that is due to the archaic rule of being ‘punished’ in-game with a yellow card. A moronic ruling which must be overturned.
Anyway, what about Ricardo?
"“Ricardo Pereira will be six to eight weeks.“That’s so frustrating for him with how hard he has worked. For the referee not to see that, it’s a fractured fibula and he’s lucky it’s not worse.”– Brendan Rodgers, Leicester Mercury"
If the Portuguese is out of training for approximately two months, by the time he is fit it could be Leeds United on March 5.
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Inconsistencies with Premier League parameters affecting Leicester City
Before playing Liverpool, the east Midlands outfit will have been afforded only one whole day’s rest. That fact appears unfair on the King Power side: they have their two first choice fullbacks and three possibly starting eleven centre-backs currently sidelined because of injury and the like. Those players with current issues include: Jonny Evans, Caglar Soyuncu, Wesley Fofana, James Justin and Ricardo.
Meanwhile the Reds utilised another break to prepare and revitalise the squad prior to playing Leicester, seemingly through favouritism: teams such as the Merseysiders and, naturally, Manchester United seemed to have fewer confirmed absences in a smaller number of areas of the pitch but are still given helpful postponements.
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Incidentally, the LCFC manager claimed that. this current period is the most challenging of his entire managerial career. To be fair, despite his constant obstinacy with regard to set-piece approach, the Northern Irishman has a point here.