Frank Lampard has provided an injury update on two of his latest casualties – Ben Sheaf and Brandon Thomas-Asante – who sat out Tuesday night’s 2-0 defeat at Derby County.
The head coach refused to go into details of Sky Blues captain Sheaf’s latest setback, although it doesn’t appear to be too serious with the hope that he’ll be back in contention for the weekend, while Thomas-Asante’s problem is one that’s currently being “managed”.
“Brandon has got a bit of a problem that he’s been carrying for a while, in his pelvic area, which has been a bit sore this week,” revealed Lampard.
“We’re having to manage his training a little bit but it got a little bit flared up this week, so that’s why he wasn’t there.”
As for midfielder Sheaf, the City boss was less specific but said it’s not a recurrence or connected to the calf strain that recently kept him out for nine games.
“Ben has had a little bit of an issue,” he said. “It isn’t the issue he had before but a different issue that ruled him out today. I won’t go into the details of it but hopefully he’ll be back very soon. We’ll see for the weekend.”
Elsewhere, Milan van Ewijk and Ephron Mason-Clark both passed fitness tests ahead of the trip to Pride Park following their weekend injuries when both had to be withdrawn against Stoke – Van Ewijk with a sore Achilles and Mason-Clark with a toe injury. Both, however, have recovered well with Van Ewijk continuing his place in the starting line-up against the Rams and Mason-Clark going on from the bench.
“Yes, they had a fitness test on Monday,” said Lampard. “Ephron has a sore toe which took a knock at the weekend so it is just a question of managing him through three games in a week, and he looked quite free when he went on. And Milan, it’s good that it wasn’t a serious injury.”
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