Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri has confirmed that Foxes goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel will have surgery on a hernia.
The stopper is expected to return to action for Leicester's next game, though, with Ranieri pointing out that it's a small problem the player had been suffering from for the last month, and that he was due to have surgery on Monday anyway, but wanted to play on Saturday.
"He played in the last month with a little hernia. Monday he will have an operation," said Ranieri via the theLeicester Mercury. "Four, five days and he will be ready for the next match.
"It was in the programme for Monday. We wanted him to play and he wanted to play and after he felt something and changed."
Schmeichel was substituted early in the second half ofthe champions' 2-1 win over Swansea City as Leicester got their first victory of the season.
Jamie Vardy got off the mark with the opening goal, but Riyad Mahrez had a penalty saved byLukasz Fabianski, failing to add to his tally, having scored against Hull Cityon opening day. Wes Morgan got the second for the Foxes, who will now look to get their season back on track after disappointing results from their first two games.
"The goalscorer always scores a goal," said Ranieri, who is now on 100 wins as a Premier League manager.
"Of course, some seasons a little more, some seasons a little less, but never never the goalscorer forgets the way.
"Of course it is important to score a goal for strikers because it is their life but for me it is important that the performance impress a lot and the first half was very, very outstanding for us."