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How many are covid? Injuries are unfortunate, but part of the game. AFCON is irrelevant because that is the club's choice - if you know 4/5 players are going to that you've taken a risk and now it's bitten you.
villa-ru-
Afcon is three (Ihenacho, Ndidi and Amartey), so is not the real issue. "Injuries are unfortunate" doesn't work any more. Many injuries are related to Covid - players are playing more games over a congested period and returning sooner than they should from injury, directly because of squads depleted by Covid. I'm sure it's the same at other clubs, but players like Evans, Ricardo, etc. got (more) injured because they played when they wouldn't otherwise have done were it not for Covid.
It's all moot though, how are Leicester supposed to fulfill a fixture with 8 eligible outfield players?
Markyboy
The reason Leicester could go ahead with the FA cup tie against Watford on Saturday was because they could name eight (academy) players in the squad, none of whom are eligible for PL games. And, even then, the bench was only made up of seven (rather than nine) substitutes.
Of the named PL squad, Leicester are missing 16 players from a squad of 28 - Soyuncu, Evans, Justin, Fofana, Bertrand, Ricardo, Thomas, Vardy, Daka, Ihenacho, Amartey, Mendy, Ndidi, Soumare, Dewsbury-Hall and Castagne - through Covid, injury or Afcon. This leaves them with 12 players, 3 of whom are goalkeepers. Whether or not the PL is a "walkover", I'm not sure how Leicester are supposed to fulfill the fixture with Everton.