Knee injury ruled Millwall attacker out of Stoke City match

BY ALEX GRACE

Duncan Watmore missed Millwall’s 1-0 win at Stoke City after suffering a knee injury in training.

Oliver Burke and Aidomo Emakhu were absent from the Lions’ matchday squad due to illness.

Rowett did not give an indication as to how long  former Sunderland and Middlesbrough player Watmore will be missing for.

“Duncan got a whack to his knee late on and was struggling with it,” said Rowett.

“Burkey tried to train yesterday but couldn’t get through it.

“Aidomo is still not well. We’ve got seven or eight key, key players out at the moment. With a squad like ours, it just begins to stretch and what it means is you’ve got very few changes in a certain area of the pitch. We had very few attacking changes. I don’t think Stoke had many either, so maybe they have the same issues.”

Asked if either Burke or Emakhu could be available for Tuesday’s crunch match at Luton, Rowett said: “Hopefully it’s nothing too serious.

“I’d say both of them have a chance for Tuesday, but then I thought both had a chance for today but they never made it.”