Lynden Gooch is unlikely to feature in Sunderland's trip to Blackburn Rovers tomorrow - although Tony Mowbray stopped short of ruling him out entirely. Gooch went off at half-time in the Black Cats' 2-1 home win against Wigan Athletic on Saturday after suffering a foot injury.
Mowbray said after the game that Gooch would be assessed ahead of the trip to Ewood Park, and today he confirmed that the versatile right-back would undergo a scan as a precaution. "I don't think Lynden's going to be available, although it's Lynden Gooch we’re talking about, so he might well come in and say he's feeling great," said Mowbray.
"It's not a really serious one, although I think he is going to get a scan today just because if he's got discomfort, we need to make sure that it's either nothing and something he can almost strap up and get on with, or if it is something more serious, we’ll be able to put a timescale on it. You always have to factor in the human being you’re dealing with, along with his pain threshold and how he deals with stuff."
