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Kelechi Iheanacho will be assessed by Leicester City after the striker missed Nigeria’s defeat to Serbia with a broken hand.

Nigeria boss Gernot Rohr confirmed that Iheanacho had fractured his first metacarpal bone ahead of the game on Tuesday night.

Iheanacho had started Nigeria previous warm-up game, a victory in Poland, only four days earlier but was not even included on the bench for the 2-0 defeat to Serbia, in Barnet.

“Unfortunately, we have one broken hand,” said Rohr ahead of the game. “This player cannot play. He has fractured the first metacarpal. This is Kelechi Iheanacho, so he will not be with us.”

Iheanacho is due to return to Leicester from international duty on Thursday where he will be assessed by City medical staff ahead of the Premier League trip to Brighton on Saturday.

Claude Puel will conduct his pre-match press conference on Thursday afternoon where he will be able to give an update on whether Iheanacho’s condition is likely to rule him out of the game at the Amex Stadium.

Jamie Vardy was able to play with a broken wrist during the title-winning season, but wore a lightweight blue cast during matches.