Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that Reda Johnson could be out for another month.
The Benin international defender has a thigh tear and could be out for another four weeks at least.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole, Tony Mowbray said about Johnson: “I spoke to the doctor this week and he was still thinking potentially another four weeks.
“Because we’ve got a young back four we could do with Reda’s experience and physicality - the statistics prove that - but by the time he does some fitness work on the back of his injury the season’s practically done so in my mind I have to move forward without Reda at the moment.
“As I thought, today’s match showed that we’ve got a young back four who are perhaps a touch naive at times and we don’t have too many alternatives.
“We’ve got Andy Webster who I know from his time in Scotland. Sometimes an experienced voice at the back can help a team, of cours,e and yet you could say the mobility of that means we might have to play a little bit deeper.
“My fear of playing like that in this league is the physical presence of teams who, if you play too deep, can put a lot of balls into the box. We’ll hopefully come up with the answers.”
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