Leicester City boss Rowett delivers latest on Foxes’ injury crisis | OneFootball

Leicester City manager Gary Rowett admits his squad is going through a difficult time with injuries.

Leicester have not won since January 10, and Rowett is in with a mighty fight to keep the Foxes in the Championship, following his appointment this month.

They are currently 22nd in the league and one point adrift of safety.

“The squad is where it is,” Rowett said ahead of the game against Middlesbrough. “We’ve got big, key players out that make a huge issue. We lost two more yesterday (Friday), Abdul (Fatawu) and also Jordan (Ayew), in the middle of our last preparations, which obviously doesn’t help.

“It’d be nice to get some of those back. I don’t know whether Abdul and Jordan will be back for Tuesday, hopefully so, fingers crossed.”

Victor Kristiansen was withdrawn during the first half in the draw with Stoke City on Saturday, and on the Danish defender’s injury, Rowett said: “With Victor today, it leaves us short again in an area. At the moment, I think we’ve got two fit centre-halves, one fit left-back and clearly we need a bit of fortune to get through some of these games before players come back.

“It just means it’s hard to change some of those moments, to be able to manage games in certain ways. You can’t wave a magic wand and suddenly create a solution for everything. That’s going to take a little bit of time to get players back.

“That’s going to mean having a slightly more mature, stronger bench. We’ve got some great young players who have worked really hard in training and have been impressive.

“But sometimes, when you’re under pressure at this stage of the season, you want some calmer heads who have done it before and that ability to change. We’re not going to solve it overnight.”

Jannik Vestergaard, Harry Souttar, Jamaal Lascelles and Hamza Choudhury, Jordan James and Aaron Ramsey have also been sidelined of late.