‘More damage than we initially thought’: Portsmouth boss delivers Colby Bishop injury latest
John Mousinho has provided more details over Colby Bishop’s injury after a second scan.
Colby Bishop’s knee injury is worse than originally anticipated.
But the Pompey boss is hopeful the striker is not heading for a lengthy period on the sidelines, after undergoing a second scan following the setback.
Mousinho on Bishop injury: ‘He needs a little period of offloading’
And Mousinho has confirmed Bishop will not need an operation, following the issue picked up in the warm-up ahead of the win at Norwich City earlier this month.
Pompey have been waiting to see the extent of the issue, with a first scan not proving conclusive over the bone bruising the 29-year-old suffered.
Now more details have surfaced, though Mousinho explained there is no exact timescale being put on Bishop’s absence.
He said: ‘There’s a bit more damage to the knee than we initially thought, the second scan has shown that.
‘It’s nothing major, he doesn’t need to go under the knife or anything.
‘But he needs a little period of offloading to allow the bone bruising to heal nicely.
‘It’s going to be at least two or three weeks of that and then we’ll see how we responds off the back of that. So we’re not going to put a timescale on anything.’
Bishop’s setback arrives with Thomas Waddingham making a scoring return to the fray, after the ankle issue picked up at West Ham in August.
Marko Milovanović and Tyrese Shade are the other striker options, though Shade has been mainly used on the left flank since his £2.2m arrival from Burton Albion in January.
Mousinho feels having other strikers available takes pressure off Bishop to rush his return.
He added: ‘With Colb, take the heart surgery away and he’s hardly missed a game for us.
‘He’s been a consistent performer, very good physically and very good pain threshold. If Colby’s missing we know it’s for a good reason.
‘It’s great to have the different options when we have centre-forwards available.
‘I think part of the issue we had last year was we never provided Colby with any help through injuries and a little loss of form. If Colby needed a break he didn’t get it.
‘He was such a massive part of what we did without scoring goals, because of the way we brought everyone else into the game and led the line.
‘If you look at the end of the season when we had that success post-QPR, Colby was outstanding then.’