MEN’S FOOTBALL: Jamie Vardy and Jonny Evans face months on the sidelines, with Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers down to just nine outfield players.

Striker Vardy has been ruled out until March with a hamstring problem while defender Evans has had surgery on his own hamstring injury.

It leaves Rodgers down to the bare bones ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup third-round visit of Watford.

WOMEN’S TENNIS: Naomi Osaka continued her winning return to the court by reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open warm-up tournament in Melbourne.

She survived a second-set wobble to defeat German veteran Andrea Petkovic 6-1 7-5 and reach her first semi-final since last year’s Australian Open.

Osaka will take on third seed Veronika Kudermetova in the last four while second seed Simona Halep meets Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen in the other semi-final.

CORONAVIRUS: Burnley boss Sean Dyche will be absent for Saturday’s FA Cup third-round clash with Huddersfield at Turf Moor as he isolates after testing positive for coronavirus.

In addition, Clarets assistant manager Ian Woan, overseeing things while Dyche is away, on Thursday said he believed there were four new positive cases within the playing staff.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Tottenham have been rocked by news that Son Heung-min has been ruled out until the end of the month with an injury.

The South Korean picked up a muscle problem in Wednesday’s League Cup semi-final first-leg defeat at Chelsea and had a scan on Thursday.

Manager Antonio Conte does not expect him to be fit before the international break at the end of the month, which rules him out of crucial games.