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Leicester City have not definitely ruled out midfielder Jordan James for Friday's Championship match at home to Preston North End (15:00 BST).

The 21-year-old was forced off in the second-half of Wales' World Cup play-off defeat by Bosnia-Herzegovina last Thursday with an Achilles injury and subsequently missed Tuesday's friendly against Northern Ireland.

"He's come back for treatment after landing a bit awkwardly," said Leicester boss Rowett.

"It wasn't anywhere near what one or two people thought at the time in terms of it being a bit more sinister. He's recovering well and getting treatment.

"He hasn't trained today [Wednesday] but some of the international lads either haven't trained or aren't back yet."

Leicester are one point adrift of safety in the Championship relegation zone with seven games remaining and Rowett is keen to have James available for the run-in especially with two matches to come over the Easter period.

"Tomorrow morning [Thursday] we'll have a discussion to see if he's available," he told BBC Radio Leicester.

"If you speak to JJ he's adamant he'll be fit, like most players do which is a great sign but we'll try to find the balance between the two games making sure if he's fine for the first one he'll be fine for the second one.

"At least it's a positive conversation and I'm not sitting here saying he's definitely going to be unavailable for the two games."

Fresh from scoring for Ghana during the international break, Leicester will hope Abdul Fatawu and Jordan Ayew can transfer that form into goals for their club as they continue to battle to avoid a second successive relegation.

Four defeats from their past five games means Preston's play-off challenge has dissolved and they start Good Friday's match (15:00 BST) 11 points short of the top six.

• Leicester have won their past two home league games against Preston, having lost four in a row against them beforehand. They last won three consecutively between 1937 and 1950.

• Following their 2-1 win in August, Preston are looking to complete the league double over Leicester for the first time since 1957-58.

• Leicester have won just one of their past 13 league games (D5 L7), beating Bristol City 2-0 at home last month.

• Following a 3-1 win against Stoke last time out, Preston are looking to win consecutive league games for the first time since January (vs Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City).

• Only Sheffield Wednesday (3) have kept fewer clean sheets than Leicester (5) in the Championship this season. However, two of the Foxes' five have come in their past three games.

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Leicester City forward Abdul Fatawu scored his second senior international goal as Ghana were beaten 2-1 by Germany in their friendly in Stuttgart on Monday night.

The 22-year-old equalised for the Black Stars in the 70th minute only for Germany to win the game with a goal from Deniz Undav two minutes from the end.

The defeat for Ghana follows a 5-1 thrashing in Austria on Friday in which Fatawu's Leicester teammate Jordan Ayew scored their consolation goal.

Both players will expect to be involved when Leicester return to Championship action on Friday at home to Preston (15:00 BST).