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Leicester City assistant Chris Davies has revealed the thinking behind Kelechi Iheanacho's omission from the last two matchday squads.

Largely regarded as Jamie Vardy's back-up, Iheanacho is usually a fixture of the Foxes bench, but he has missed out on the matchday squad in each of the last two outings after making the bench for the first two league games but not making any appearances.

The former Manchester City forward was left out for the league win over Sheffield United, and then again when he might have expected to feature in the Carabao Cup second round tie with Newcastle United during the week.

Following that penalty shootout win over the Magpies, City assistant boss Chris Davies provided the thinking behind the decision to leave out Iheanacho.

"(There is no) No reason. We try and balance the bench the best we can. Kel has been working well in training, there are no issues at all.

"It's just a case of recently, we have had Demarai Gray on the bench instead of Kel.

"He (Gray) is a multi-functional attacking player who can play out wide and up front.

"We also have Ayoze (Perez) who can play up front, so we just felt the balance that we have, it was better to stick with what we did on the weekend."

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