Major fitness update on key Sunderland and Everton striker

Simms limped off through the 3-0 win over Reading on Wednesday with an damage to his toe, leaving the Black Cats and not using a recognised striker within the aspect.

Mowbray was hopeful within the fast aftermath of the sport that there was no break and that seems to be the case.

The Everton loanee will bear a health take a look at on Friday afternoon and if he doesn’t come via that, the pinnacle coach may be very hopeful that he will probably be match after the upcoming worldwide break.

“We’re hoping he’ll be OK. It’s going to be a case of him getting his boot on – seeing what it’s like.

“I’ve simply been speaking to him there at breakfast, he’ll have a jog about on the grass as we speak and we’ll wait and see. If the worst involves worst and he can’t make the sport tomorrow, we have a break for 2 weeks and I’m positive he’ll be effective after that.

“It’s contact and go [for tomorrow] as I sit right here now, it’ll rely upon our coaching session this afternoon and the way he goes in that.

“It’s not all doom and gloom, even when Ellis doesn’t make tomorrow we scored three targets with out him on the pitch on Wednesday evening. We need to discover a approach, we all know we’re enjoying a very sturdy aspect who have been within the Premier League final 12 months. They’ll be hurting from the opposite evening and so they’ll have a crowd proper behind them, and our job is to go and check out make them a bit nervous, hold the ball off them and attempt to create the probabilities.

“It’s going to be a very attention-grabbing sport. We have saved our toes on the bottom after Wednesday evening, and I hope I’m not sat after the sport speaking to you about how we possibly thought we have been higher than we’re towards Premier League high quality.

“We will go on the market from the primary whistle to compete initially, we’ll look to place our sport plan into motion and hopefully have a optimistic day. We need to earn the proper to make it optimistic.”