Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that Jordan Willis will be re-assessed after pulling up in the 29th minute of City U21's game against Barnsley.
Willis needed medical attention and left the pitch with his knee strapped up and speaking about this to the Coventry Telegraph, Mowbray said: “It’s not a recurrence which is a good sign although any injury is a worry.
“In an ideal world he’d have come through that game strongly and we’d have been looking to get him involved at the weekend, but that’s obviously going to come too soon for him again.
“Sometimes when players have been out for a while every little knock and niggle is a worry for them so we’ll have to reassure him that everything’s fine or, if there is an issue, give him the time to get fully fit again.
“I was very lucky. “I hardly missed a match –played 40 games a season for ten years – and I was a big lad, too, so it was a heavy landing when I went down.
“I had very solid knees, went through my whole career and never had a problem there. I think that was because I had huge quads which protect your knees. And I probably got those because I was ploughing through muddy pitches, developing the strength in my legs.
“These days you’re playing on carpets every week and the game is so much faster, with a lot more twisting and turning. Jordan’s a lot quicker than I was so his muscles have to work differently and there’s more strain on them.
“We can all reminisce about the days in the 60s and 70s when the same team would turn out week after week and Liverpool would win the title using 14 men.
“Now even teams in League One have got 24-man squads and they utilise them all in the course of a season because times are different and players’ bodies are different.”