Unlucky Portsmouth winger causing Colchester United concern following latest setback

And it’s left loan club Colchester United anxiously waiting news on the extent of his latest injury setback.

The 25-year-old winger’s Pompey career was hugely impacted by injury, with the former Wigan forward restricted to just nine appearances during his one and only season at Fratton Park.

A knee injury suffered in August following six starts for the Blues required surgery and ruled the former Republic of Ireland under-21 international out for four months. Meanwhile, a series of knocks and niggles over the second half of the 2023-24 campaign restricted the player to just two more outings, before he was allowed to kick-start his career elsewhere at the end of the summer transfer window alongside Gavin Whyte.

Indeed, a season-long loan move to Danny Cowley’s League Two U’s was secured in the final hours of deadline day - a switch that effectively brought his Blues career to an end, with Scully now in the final year of his existing Pompey contract.

Since then the former West Ham youngster has featured seven times for Colchester and scored once, with his goal against MK Dons in the EFL Trophy in September his first in more than two years.

However, that early-season momentum has been brought to a halt following another knee issue. It ensured Scully sat out the U’s’ 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Cheltenham on Saturday. And with Cowley & Co unsure of the extent of the problem, the League Two strugglers are nervously waiting on news from their medical team.

Cowley told the Daily Gazette after Saturday’s defeat to Cheltenham: ‘Anthony felt his knee in the Port Vale game. He’s tried to get on with it but it’s been inhibiting him and he’s been struggling with it. He hasn’t felt right.

‘He had an injection in it on Tuesday and he trained Thursday but he wasn’t happy with it, so we’re going to have to go away and look at that.’

Colchester are next in action tonight, when they travel to Paul Cook’s Chesterfield.