\n The Blues took all three points thanks to goals from Sindre Walle Egeli and George Hirst, but their first-choice left-back wasn’t named in the squad, having played the full 90 minutes in the 5-3 defeat at Wrexham over the weekend.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Leif is struggling from a heavy knock he got on Saturday, just above his knee,” McKenna explained.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Absolutely no chance for today. We’ll have to see how he is over the next few days.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Jacob Greaves replaced the left-back at Vicarage Road (Image: Ross Halls)\n<\/p>\n
\n In his absence, Jacob Greaves stepped in at left-back, putting in an impressive display to help Town keep a clean sheet at Vicarage Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He did really well,” McKenna said. “That’s probably two out of three games at left-back he’s done really well in this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I think he can comfortably play that position really, really well. He’s got some good attributes for it and she showed them tonight.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Town have most players fit and available, with Marcelino Nunez recovering from his ankle injury to make a cameo appearance at Wrexham before starting against Watford.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jaden Philogene remains sidelined with an MCL injury (Image: Ross Halls)\n<\/p>\n
\n However, Jaden Philogene remains sidelined with an MCL issue, with no clear picture on when he’ll be back in action.\n<\/p>\n
\n “No, and it’s not me being vague and not trying to give anything away for the weekend,” McKenna replied when asked about the winger having a timeframe for his return. “It’s day-by-day.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s a really delicate area, a really tricky injury.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He’s made some progress again this week and he’s back out on the grass, but we’ll have to keep assessing him day-by-day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues took all three points thanks to goals from Sindre Walle Egeli and George Hirst, but their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-444133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}