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Leicester City winger Jeremy Monga will be available for the Foxes' rematch against Southampton on Saturday (15:00 GMT) in the FA Cup. However, defender Jannik Vestergaard has been ruled out for four to six weeks.

Monga, 16, has returned to training after missing out on the 4-3 defeat to the Saints on Tuesday, while Vestergaard, 33, has not been present for the side's past three games.

Foxes caretaker boss Andy King confirmed after the loss to Southampton that the Denmark international was having surgery for a hernia.

"Jannik is going to be out for a while," King said during his media conference.

"It's a shame for us, he's played a lot for this season but apart from that we are OK [with new injuries]."

King has also confirmed that he has not heard anything about the arrival of a new manager after Marti Cifuentes was sacked in January.

But with the FA Cup offering a "shop window" for players hoping to impress an incoming head coach, the 37-year-old is aiming to dispel the club's current run of poor form before a new face sits in the managerial seat.

He added: "It'll be almost a little bit different, without the pressure of the three points and our league position, but that doesn't take anything away from the importance of the game [against Southampton].

"We've not been on a run of good form and we need a win to try and change our momentum, we need a win to get the mood in the camp lifted."

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The 72+ team was joined by Millwall midfielder Massimo Luongo to discuss the Foxes' downfall on Tuesday night and the Australian expressed his doubts over the squad's current mentality.

"I think it's the end product of so many warning signs throughout the season," Luongo said.

"As soon as they got the six-point deduction, I thought 'are they the team to band together, to really fight it out, to work hard for each other?' - probably not.

"Are a lot of the individuals thinking 'I shouldn't be here, can I get a move?'... the result just sums that up.

"When it got a little bit tough, do you float or do you sink, and unfortunately, they just sank."

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Leicester City's interim boss Andy King told branded the Foxes capitulation against Southampton as "completely unacceptable" in his post-match interview with BBC Radio Leicester.

The East Midlands club were three goals up at half-time and leading 3-1 until the 81st minute, only to lose 4-3 in a sensational late collapse at the King Power Stadium.

"I want to start by apologising for that last half an hour. It was completely unacceptable," King said.

"Obviously, the feeling I have at the moment is sheer anger towards the performance. It will take a bit of time to process, I have to watch it back, see what happened but, yeah, passive and not good enough.

"Probably a lack of character, a lack of leadership, stuff we have said about before and it has been almost a pattern throughout the season where you do some good bits in good spells and then we almost have a spell of the game where we just go under.

"Like I say, I'm angry at the moment so I don't want to speak out of turn. I need to watch it back, I need to properly analyse it, I need a bit of time to reflect on it. Like I said, I fully apologise for it but that's all I'm sat with at the moment.

"You've seen today, probably, our season in a nutshell. You've seen some brilliant football, some goals, some really good stuff and then some stuff which is unacceptable and we have seen both sides of that today.

"Come out of another loss, some good stuff, but second half, last half an hour, from my point of view, like I keep saying, apologies. Completely unacceptable."