Slavia Prague's Ondrej Kudela, the player at the centre of a racism storm being investigated by both police and UEFA, will miss Thursday's Europa League clash with Arsenal.
UEFA has handed the Czech defender a one-match 'provisional suspension' as they conclude their investigation into allegations he called Rangers player Glen Kamara a 'f****** monkey' during a fiery match at Ibrox in the round of 16 last month.
However, Slavia had earlier announced that Kudela was set to miss the quarter-final, first leg meeting at the Emirates Stadium through illness and injury anyway.
Both Police Scotland and UEFA are looking into the allegations with Kamara's lawyer saying he expected the former to question Kudela when he returned to the UK for the game this week. However, this now won't be possible.
It has also emerged that the results of UEFA's investigation may take another week to be published but they took the decision on Tuesday to issue the provisional ban.
'He has a cold, virosis and fever, and after a blow to the nose he also has inflammation,' Slavia assistant coach Zdenek Houstecky told the club's website.
The nasal injury is the result of a blow inflicted accidentally by Gareth Bale of Wales during last week's World Cup qualifier against the Czechs in Cardiff.
That trip to Wales passed off without any off-field incident for Kudela despite Slavia being uncertain at first whether to allow him to travel.
Slavia spokesman Michel Bycek said: 'Ondrej is on antibiotics and has not done his UEFA tests or passed a fitness test. Unfortunately, we expect that he can't play against Arsenal.
'According to an examination at the Central Hospital in Prague, he has nasal contusion, high fever and is on antibiotics.
'The duration of his treatment cannot be estimated at the moment.'
Rangers and Slavia will have to wait until next week for the outcome of the UEFA probe into the racial abuse allegations, according to reports in the Czech Republic.
The report has been concluded and will be discussed by UEFA's disciplinary committee on Thursday it could take a week to ratify whatever decision they come to.
As a result, the verdict could be published on the day of the return leg of the Arsenal quarter-final tie in Prague.
Kudela has denied racially abusing Kamara and Slavia accused the Rangers man of a physical attack on their player in the tunnel after the match, involving police via the Czech Embassy in Glasgow.
In an extraordinary intervention last week, Slavia's president Jaroslav Tvrdik came out fighting against the racism accusations.
He blamed Rangers officials of 'escalating biased pressure' on UEFA and the police and said Slavia have been the victims of 'xenophobic prejudice.'
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UEFA IS ALSO RACIST. what will 1 match ban do to a player at the of RACISM???