Coventry City injury news from CoventryLive as we look at the latest state of play regarding Mark Robins’ absent players and when they’re likely to return.
Mark Robins is still without five first team players as Coventry City get back to work after the latest international break. The two-week pause in the fixture list came at a welcome time for the Sky Blues boss who has been forced to make do and mend in recent weeks due to having so many members of his senior squad sidelined with injuries.
Two weeks without a competitive game provides an opportunity for injured bodies to recover after a bruising start to the campaign. The treatment room has been busier than usual in the opening stages of the season, highlighted by a makeshift midfield in the latter stages of Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Norwich City when centre-half Joel Latibeaudiere was deployed in a holding role in the middle of the park for the first time, albeit the position he plays for Jamaica.
Robins has previously been reluctant to deploy the summer signing from Swansea in that role but it’s been a case of needs must with so many casualties in an area of the pitch that already lacks strengthen in depth due to the failure to sign an alternative to Gustavo Hamer when he was sold to Sheffield United late on in the summer transfer window. Sky Blues fans will be hoping for more available options when they travel to Bristol City on Saturday (October 21). Here is a complete injury round-up, including potential return dates.
Ben Sheaf
City’s best holding midfielder suffered an adductor strain in training following the Watford game with the prognosis being that he’d be out for a minimum of six weeks. He returned to the grass in the week leading up to the Norwich match (at the five week stage) and is therefore hoped to be back in full contact training this week (week seven) when the Sky Blues build into the Bristol City game.
