George Hirst, Leif Davis and Ivan Azon are doubts ahead of Tuesday’s home game against Watford.

Hirst and Davis were both replaced in the second half of this afternoon’s 4-1 win at QPR, while Azon missed out on a place in the squad having picked up an injury in last Saturday’s 1-0 victory over West Brom.

“He had some muscle tightness from the game last weekend, so he’s not been able to train this weekend and he’s not made it for the game, so we’ll see how he recovers,” manager Kieran McKenna said of the Spanish striker, who is on loan with the Blues for the season from Serie A Como.

“It’s nothing, hopefully, very serious, but Tuesday’s in doubt. We’ll have to see how he is over the next couple of days.”

Regarding Hirst, who netted twice against Rangers to take his season’s tally to five, equal with Jaden Philogene and Jack Clarke, and Davis, he added: “Both felt their hamstring. I don’t think either felt it in a very, very big way but with hamstrings you don’t know, so we’ll assess them in the next 24 hours.”

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LWNR1973 added 18:29 - Nov 1 Well done KmcK, I still believe you’re the best since SBR.
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trevski_s added 18:40 - Nov 1 Hopefully nothing too serious as todays game would have really helped Hirsts game going forward. Was expecting a couple of changes on Tuesday but hopefully these two can at least make the bench. Have Young start instead of Davis and Akpom start instead of Hirst and depending on how others feel fitness wise no other changes needed
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churchmans added 20:21 - Nov 1 LWNR1973 you mean since george burley!
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oioihardy added 20:53 - Nov 1 We all said we needed 3 strikers from prem season .... we arrogantly went into another season with 2 strikers . Enough said
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ringwoodblue added 22:53 - Nov 1 Without Azon, Hirst and Szmodics, we are going to be very light upfront on Tuesday. Akpom or Egeli will have to lead the line or one of the academy strikers.
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Gforce added 23:35 - Nov 1 Don't panic,they'll all be fit for Tuesday, just wait and see.
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blues1 added 07:38 - Nov 2 Oioihardy. Atvleast get ur facts right. We actually have 4 strikers, not 2. Hirst, Azon, Akpom and Szmoducs. Thevlatterc2 obviously also play in nunberc10 role. It's really unlucky to have about of the gour carrying injuries at same time
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BobbyBell added 09:35 - Nov 2 There will be changes for Tuesday but please not more than 3 or 4. I feel that we disrespected Charlton by virtually changed the whole team and we paid the price. Lets build our confidence with another home win by keeping the bulk of this team together.
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Linkboy13 added 15:24 - Nov 3 The chance of one of the academy strikers leading the line is zero comment made me laugh though.
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