Stoke City boss Mark Robins is concerned that defender Ben Wilmot may be in line for a lengthy injury absence following a challenge late on in Wednesday's 3-1 defeat at Portsmouth.
After briefly giving the Potters hope, as they trailed 2-0 down inside nine minutes, with a first-half goal, Wilmot's night ended badly at Fratton Park when he was on the wrong end of a full-blooded two-foot challenge in injury time from home midfielder Terry Devlin.
"He was in a lot of pain," Robins told BBC Radio Stoke.
Robins revealed that Wilmot, who has started 23 of Stoke's 28 Championship games this season, went for an x-ray at a local Portsmouth hospital.