Burton sidelined with knee injury
Further bad news for Pompey as the striker crisis deepens further following news that Dion Burton will have to undergo surgery following a knee injury obtained during the FA Cup defeat of Blackpool. Burton is expected to be admitted to hospital this weekend.
He told the official site: 'I went over in training last Wednesday and I tried training today but it was no good so I have been biked in for an operation. Given our striker options at the moment the timing is awful.'
Burton also joins Vincent Pericard and Svetoslav Todorov in the treatment room. With the departure of Jason Roberts to Wigan on Tuesday along with Yakubu who is set to join his fellow countrymen for the African Nations Cup on Sunday the situation up front is looking even more dire.