Sunderland dealt damaging blow as Lee Johnson provides player update

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·10 January 2021

Sunderland dealt damaging blow as Lee Johnson provides player update

Sunderland manager Lee Johnson has revealed that defender Tom Flanagan is facing up to six weeks on the sidelines with a broken metatarsal.

Flanagan was absent from the Black Cats’ matchday squad on Saturday night as they played out a 1-1 draw with Hull City at the Stadium of Light, and it now seems as though Flanagan is feeling the effects of an injury he has been suffering for some time.

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Providing an explanation for Flanagan’s absence from the squad following that draw, Johnson was quoted by The Sunderland Echo as saying: “Flanno has got a broken metatarsal sustained, I think, before I came in. He’s been playing on with that but it’s painful, and losing him is a difficult one to take.”