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Last Birmingham injury news as the club is preparing to face promotion contenders Charlton Athletic in League 1

Christoph Clarer is evaluated before Birmingham City’s decisive clash with Charlton Athletic after being pulled with an injury on Tuesday’s victory over Cambridge.

Austrian defender Clarer, who is captain of a late blues, was replaced by Grant Hanley in the 71st minute after he came down, holding the lower back.

Blues are already without Mark Leonard, Taylor Gardner-Hikman and Emil Hanson. Leonard will be inaccessible until knee healing heals, but Gardner-Hikman and Hanson are not far away according to manager Chris Davis.

He said, “Taylor is approaching every day, but it’s still a little far away. Emil Hanson is training now, we hope that next week will be full training. “

Here’s the most recent Blue’s injury conference before Davis’s press conference on Friday and the Charlton match on Saturday …

Christoph

Injury: Backward

Clarer seems to have been in some discomfort with his back and asked to be replaced in the middle of the second half of Blues’s victory over Cambridge.

Davis was clearly concerned afterwards, saying, “He felt something as far as I didn’t know, but he couldn’t go on, so it’s a little worry. We’ll have to see how it is in the next few days. “

Mark Leonard

Injury: Knee

Leonard came up with a 50/50 challenge with Newcastle midfielder Lewis Miley. There was a great break below Leonard’s knee and he was experiencing significant pain as it was stretched immediately after an hour in the fourth round of FA Cup.

The Scot is stuck in hospital and is now facing a spell.

Davis commented: “Mark Leonard was being treated in the hospital and now it came out, I can’t give anything definitive, but we hope there is nothing significant or structurally wrong with his knee. It’s really deep, so it’s the case of recovering and they usually take a few weeks. “

Taylor Gardner-Hickman

Injury: Unspecified

The Gardner-Hickman has not been seen since he performed back on the pitch at the end of Blues’s victory over Roter on February 1st. The communal services man is expected to miss Charlton.

Emil Hanson

Injury: Muscular

Hanson made his first start in more than two months against Blackpool on December 29, but he succumbed to another injury shortly before half. Like the one he endured last time, Hanson pulled out without anyone around him and immediately signaled that he had to be replaced. Hanson could soon return to a dispute with Davis, expecting him to return to the team training next week.

Recently, Davis reflected: “It’s very disappointing on Emil, it was Stop-Start and that’s the last thing you want. He got on the team and stayed in the team and was a key player in the early performance of the season, after which he took the injury and injured himself again, so he was disappointing. I feel he is disappointed and wants to go again.

“We hope that after he returns from this, he can finish the season strongly. He was a player who returned and had to build his fitness in games, instead of having the luxury of a two -week training block that you would have, and he ultimately took advantage. This may happen, but it’s disappointing to him. “

Lee bunch

Injury: Knee

Buchanan received a serious knee injury during the draw with Blackpool and will miss the rest of the season. Davis said: “Lee’s injury is quite as severe, as everyone would have guessed. It will come out for a significant time with a bad knee injury, as you may have seen from the photos and he will not be with us for this season absolutely. “

The left back is back on the feet of the Blues training ground, though with a knee on the spot and in the early stages of its rehabilitation.