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.
As Coventry City takes a break for the most recent international break, Mark Robins still has five players missing from the first team. The Sky Blues manager, who has had to make do and mend in recent weeks due to having so many players of his senior squad sidelined with injuries, has welcomed the two-week break.
Two weeks without a competitive fixture 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 just under a fortnight. 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 he’s likely to be out for a minimum of six weeks. He returned to the grass last week at the five week stage and is therefore hoped to be back in full contact training by week seven next week when the Sky Blues build into the Bristol City game.
Kasey Palmer
The playermaker and most creative player in the squad suffered the same adductor tear injury as Sheaf, believed to be in the 3-2 defeat at Cardiff City. Ruled out with an initial prognosis of six-eight weeks, Palmer is now in week four of his recovery.
Liam Kelly
The holding midfielder limped off midway through the first half against Blackburn, with the initial prognosis a hamstring tear. Although Robins feared the worst, the player insisted it was not that bad and refused a scan which would have confirmed the full extent of the injury.
Callum O’Hare
The exciting attacking midfielder suffered a ruptured ACL at Sheffield United on Boxing Day last year, putting him out for a minimum of nine months. He’s been a huge miss both last season and this but Robins is determined not to rush him back. O’Hare has been back in full contact training for the last few weeks and his manager admitted he was tempted to give him game time in the Under-21s recently.
Fabio Tavares
The young striker ruptured his Achilles tendon in early January in the FA Cup defeat to Wrexham and the projected comeback time was late September/early October. Tavares, however, only return to the grass last week (Oct 5) for running drills. His next step will be joining in full contact training and he’s clearly several weeks away from a run-out with the Under-21s.
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