Iheanacho could play with injury against Brighton — coach

Super Eagles and Leicester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho could feature against Brighton despite breaking his hand on international duty with Nigeria.

Iheanacho fell and fractured his first metacarpal bone, which ruled him out of Nigeria’s defeat to Serbia on Tuesday night.

The former Manchester City forward returned to Leicester duty on Thursday and Claude Puel said that the club would assess the 21-year-old to see if he could play through the injury.

Jamie Vardy famously played with a lightweight cast on his hand during the title-winning season after breaking his wrist.

“We will see about Iheanacho because he has a broken hand,” confirmed Puel in his pre-match press conference. “We will see if he can play with his injury. We will see tomorrow (Friday) in the training session.

 “I think he fell. It’s not an important injury. We will see if this injury prevents him from playing in this game. Perhaps it might be strange for him to play with a cast.”