MILLWALL’s injury issues look to be growing after more knocks were picked up by first-team players.
Tom Bradshaw missed the game with a hamstring issue picked up at the end of training on Thursday while George Honeyman was substituted off with an apparent issue in this afternoon’s 3-1 defeat to Middlesbrough.
Bradshaw is expected to miss four to five weeks “minimum”, Joe Edwards told Millwall TV.
He joins Aidomo Emakhu, Ryan Leonard and Shaun Hutchinson on the injury list after a sudden spate of issues for the Lions.
In brighter news for Millwall, Casper De Norre made his first appearance since November when he came off the bench against Boro while Murray Wallace and Brooke Norton-Cuffy also returned from their minor knocks.
George Saville will also be able to return for the trip to Queens Park Rangers next week after serving all three games of his red card suspension.
On Millwall’s latest issues, Joe Edwards said after the game: “We’re light, it’s a problem. We’ve been unlucky with injuries as well. Aidomo’s injury was nonsense and then Tom Bradshaw’s is…. We trained here [at The Den] on Thursday, training had finished. He was doing some extra finishing at the end and on the final shot, we watched it back on the camera, barely anything has happened and he’s got a hamstring injury out of nothing. At the end of the training session, he’s a big loss for us.
“I don’t know what Honeyman’s going to be yet but like you say, when you see what’s off their [Boro’s] bench and I turn around – with all due respect as it’s great having young players around – but when you’re playing at this level and you need to go on and effect a game that’s of that intensity and that importance of what the scoreline was, it’s difficult.
“We’re light in numbers at the moment and it’s an issue.”
Joe Bryan – who both scored and was at fault for Boro’s second goal – also appeared to pick up an issue in the second half but was able to carry on.
On the full-back, Edwards said: “I saw something in the second half. The fact he ran it off and carried on, I just presumed he got a knock. I’ve not spoken or heard anything yet but I’ll have to check that. No one has flagged anything to me down there yet.”