Leicester will play next week’s Championship match against Sunderland without defender Jannik Vestergaard, who has received his tenth yellow card of the season.
The 31-year-old central defender has started 32 of the Foxes’ 34 league games this season, with only goalkeeper Mads Hermansen and central defender Harry Winks starting more, but will be unavailable for Saturday’s home game against QPR and next week’s game against Sunderland on Tuesday 5 November.
Leicester are preparing for Tuesday’s FA Cup match at Bournemouth and Vestergaard will be available for the Vitality Stadium match as his suspension does not include the FA Cup.
Leicester striker Jamie Vardy is also expected to miss the game against Sunderland due to a groin problem which kept him unavailable for last week’s 3-1 defeat at Leeds. Asked how long Vardy will be out, Foxes manager Enzo Maresca told BBC Radio Leicester: “I don’t know. He will be out for a while. I don’t know exactly how long.”
Vardy has scored 10 league goals in 23 league appearances this season, four of them in his last four appearances. The Foxes will also be without centre-forward Wilfred Ndidi against Sunderland because of a leg injury.
The Black Cats are preparing for Saturday’s game against Norwich as Dan Ballard will serve the second game of a two-match suspension for receiving 10 yellow cards this season.
Ballard’s central defender Luke O’Nien has nine yellow cards and would have been suspended for the games against Leicester and Southampton if he had been fined against Norwich.