John Eustace was giving very little away, as you’d expect, when providing an injury update on three of his players ahead of the trip to face his old club Coventry City.
The former Sky Blues midfielder and skipper has got Blackburn Rovers off to a flying start to the new Championship campaign, unbeaten in all seven league games to date, having won all four of their home games at Ewood Park and drawing all their away matches.
And the Rovers’ boss was due to assess Harry Pickering and Arnor Sigurdsson before facing the Sky Blues at the CBS Arena on Tuesday night (7.45pm), but Callum Brittain may be protected until after the international break. Left-back Pickering was withdrawn at half-time on Saturday due to illness and attacking midfielder Sigurdsson has missed the last three matches for the same reason.
“I haven’t seen the players yet so we’ll see how they report this morning when they come in and take it from there,” Eustace told the Lancashire Telegraph.
“For Pick to play 45 minutes on Saturday after being ill, he did remarkably well. We will see how he is, if he’s not available we’ll look at our options in that area. He’s not the first player this season to push through that. All of the lads want to help the team and that’s the mentality.
