FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Premier League - Aston Villa v Leicester City - Villa Park, Birmingham, Britain - February 21, 2021 Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers Pool via REUTERS/Tim Keeton
(Reuters) - Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers said playmaker James Maddison was substituted during Sunday's 2-1 Premier League win at Aston Villa as a precaution after a recurrence of a hip problem that had sidelined him at the end of last season.
The 24-year-old England international, who missed Leicester's last six games of the 2019-20 campaign due to the hip issue that needed surgery, opened the scoring at Villa Park but was withdrawn shortly after the hour mark and replaced by Nampalys Mendy.
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