Evans set to miss another two weeks, says Johnson
Lee Johnson is hopeful that Corry Evans will make a relatively swift recovery from his hamstring injury.
The Sunderland captain missed the 1-0 defeat to Burton Albion on Tuesday night.
Evans will almost certainly sit out the next two games.
Johnson says the Northern Ireland midfielder has probably suffered from his late arrival this summer.
“I think the tough one with Corry is that because we recruited him late, I think we were chasing his minutes," Johnson said.
“He was getting fit through games at, like, 80%, and it’s just tweaked.
“It’salow-gradehamstring, just on the side of the hamstring, so we think it’s a quick healer but it’s probably going to be 10 to 14 days."
Johnson, meanwhile, says his instinct was that the decisionto rule Tom Flanagan’ slate goal out for offside at Burton was the right one.
The Black Cats looked to have earned a deserved point when Flanagan nodded in Lynden Gooch’s cross with just seconds to play, but the flag was then raised.
Johnson angrily remonstrated with the match officials at full-time but said that was due to his frustration with a lack of time added on.
“I wasn’t moaning at that,” he said.
"I was moaning at the amount of time they put on at the end. It was like two minutes or two-and-a-half minutes. It was supposed to be four minutes but we played like three minutes and 15 seconds.
“There was loads going on, obviously they were wasting time and I felt like almost every minute we could have an opportunity towards the end.”
On the disallowed goal, he said: “I thought it was offside.”