Striker Marc McNulty is hoped to make a welcome return to Coventry City action early next month just as Mark Robins’s forward line is set to lose another player.
The Sky Blues will be without Duckens Nazon – who has been promoted to the starting line-up with impressive results in McNulty’s absence with a hamstring strain – for two games at the start of October after being called up for international duty with Haiti.
The 23-year-old loan signing from Wolves has been capped 20 times so far by his country, scoring seven times, and has been called up for the matches on October 6 and 11 against China and Japan respectively.
As a result Nazon, who has scored two in two for the Sky Blues, will miss the domestic games against Walsall in the Checkatrade Trophy and the televised league clash at Barnet.
That would leave City short of senior striking options but Robins has revealed: “Hopefully Marc McNulty will be back by the time Nazon goes away.”
As well as Nazon has done against Cambridge United and Carlisle United, getting the goals to spark the side into life, Robins believes there’s still plenty more to come from the player whose game improved significantly after the break on both occasions.
“I think that’s fair,” agreed Robins.
“With Nazon it’s a question of what you are going to get from him. He played well against Carlisle, got his goal and stayed in the team.
“In the second half against Cambridge he looked more of a threat and you are looking for that from him all the time.
Guile
“He’s got the power and the pace and he’s got a really good finish on him as well, so he’s showing some really good signs.
“He has contributed again, got on the scoresheet and he looked a threat. I’d have liked his second chance to have gone in. It just needed a little bit of guile instead of the power sometimes, to beat the keeper.
“He’s an experienced goalkeeper, Forde, and he obviously got Cambridge the points with the saves that he made.”
He added: “But we’ll be without Nazon in a short while when he goes on international duty with Haiti, lose him for nine or ten days.
“It is what it is. We knew he was an international when we signed him so it hasn’t come out of the blue.
“We just have to ride that one until he comes back.”
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