Bristol Rovers winger Harry Anderson has been given time off by the club to recover from a foot injury, Joey Barton has revealed. Anderson is not the type of player to shirk any chance to help his team and had played through pain in recent weeks, but he has been taken out of contention to allow the issue to heal.
Rovers suspected Anderson broke his toe just seconds after kick-off at Ipswich Town last month, but an X-ray showed there was no bone damage. However, the 25-year-old has significant bruising.
In a bid to help his team, Anderson carried on playing with the help of pain-relieving injections before the defeats to Lincoln City and Accrington Stanley. But with slow progress in his recovery, he sat out Saturday's draw at Exeter City and the EFL Trophy win over Crystal Palace under-21s on Tuesday.
