“He won’t be available for 90 minutes, but you don’t need to play the whole game to be effective, like Stoke put Peter Crouch on for 20 minutes on Saturday. You want to have him at least on the bench, because it gives a lift to the team as we are lacking goals.
“Everything else I am happy with. We are defending good, we have a good shape and everything, never losing composure, good on the ball, but there we are.
“I know that Andy is not injured because he is not professional. That script is not the case. I know that Andy is very settled down, very up for training and looking after his body and it looked, at one stage of the season, that he would be OK and all that.
“It’s not coincidence that during that period we won six out of nine, then suddenly we are without him.”