Sunderland will have to wait for the results of a scan on Ross Stewart, with boss Tony Mowbray fearing he could be without his 'talisman' for several weeks. Stewart pulled out of the Black Cats' game against Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium at the last minute after suffering a thigh injury in the warm-up.
Mowbray said afterwards that the Scotland striker looks to have torn a muscle, and said that until the club receives the results of a scan it is impossible to tell whether he will be out for a couple of weeks or a couple of months. "He did it shooting in the warm-up really, he's popped a muscle in his thigh," said Mowbray, whose team went on to lose 1-0 on Teesside.
"It seems a very isolated spot so whether it's a tear in the upper thigh when he struck the ball, I don't know. I can't tell you any more - you know how scans work, it either comes back grade one, grade two, or grade three, and he'll be out for either two weeks, four weeks, or eight weeks.
