Fit-again Lynden Gooch is set to travel with the Sunderland squad to Shrewsbury for this weekend's FA Cup tie - but Tony Mowbray says the remainder of the club's injured players will remain on Wearside. Sunderland travel to Shropshire this weekend for their third round tie against the Shrews at the New Meadow, but a series of injuries have left Mowbray with limited room for manoeuvre when it comes to making changes for the cup match.
Gooch suffered a hamstring problem in the Boxing Day win against Blackburn Rovers at the Stadium of Light, and missed last week's win at Wigan and the weekend draw at Blackpool, but he will be back in contention on Saturday. But Danny Batth (calf), Aji Alese (foot), Dennis Cirkin (thigh), Niall Huggins (ankle), Corry Evans (illness), Alex Pritchard (calf), and long-term casualty Elliot Embleton (fractured ankle), will all miss out.
Of those, Evans is expected to be available for the Championship game against Swansea City a week on Saturday, while Batth could also be involved in that game, but the rest are unlikely to be fit. Mowbray said: "Lynden Gooch trained today so he will come with us, which is good news.
