NOTTINGHAM Forest have suffered a double injury blow after Julian
Bennett  and Lewis McGugan were ruled out for the foreseeable future.


Left-back Bennett suffered a calf tear in the 5-1 defeat to Wolves and
will miss at least the next three games against Burnley, Preston and
then Charlton a week on Saturday.


Midfielder McGugan, who has already been out a month, was expected to be
back in training this week.

But he has been ruled out for up to a further six weeks with his thigh
problem.

Bennett, who has started every league game this season and was player of
the year as Forest won promotion to the Championship, will be replaced
at left back by rookie Joe Heath or Chris Cohen for Saturday's match
with Burnley.


Manager Colin Calderwood said: "Julian has a torn calf muscle, he will
be out for the next three games at least.

"Lewis will be another four to six weeks. The results of his scan show
that he has ruptured a muscle in his thigh.

"The extent of Lewis's injury is such that we can't risk putting him
back into training just yet.

"It is far from the perfect scenario, to have these two players missing,
particularly with the patch of games we have coming up, with three in
eight days."

Tags: Injuries, Bennett, McGugan