Blackpool's injury state of play ahead of must-win Millwall clash as Leeds United loanee is ruled out

The loanee has returned to his parent club Leeds United after scans showed the winger has suffered a grade two hamstring injury.

The 23-year-old picked up the knock during the recent win against Wigan Athletic, but was risked on the bench against Birmingham City last weekend due to Blackpool’s lack of numbers.

Poveda came on as a 62nd minute sub, scored Blackpool’s winning goal before hobbling off five minutes from time.

“That’s his season done,” Dobbie revealed. “I think he’s gone back to Leeds to get his treatment.

“He had a grade two so you’re talking three, four or five weeks so unfortunately Ian won’t be with us. Hopefully we can continue and get the win (against Millwall on Friday night) without him.

“It was obviously a gamble for us to put him on the bench because he’d hurt it two games before, but he still came on and tapped the goal in.

“But at that point we knew we couldn’t have any passengers so we decided to make the change and we’ve since seen what the scans showed.”

Elsewhere, the Seasiders continue to sweat over the fitness of four players ahead of tomorrow night’s must-win encounter at Bloomfield Road.

“Jerry (Yates) and Keshi (Anderson) have got a fitness test this morning before training, so we’ll see where they are,” Dobbie added.

“It’s a similar story with Shayne Lavery and Jordan Thorniley as well. Jud came off on Saturday so we need to see how he is this morning to look towards training later on today.

“It’s been similar since I came in. Even all year there’s been a long list of important players being out injured, so it is what it is.

“If they’re fit and ready to go we’ll need to wheel them out and hopefully get a performance out of them.”

Lavery featured in an in-house game on Monday to step up his recovery from a hamstring injury. Marvin Ekpiteta, Tom Trybull and Rob Apter also featured.

All four came through it fine and a decision will be made on their availability after training today.