Updated 3:49pm 3 June 2012

Tranmere Rovers face attacking injury crisis ahead of Yeovil match

TRANMERE Rovers will be taking an improvised attack into League One action at  Yeovil Town tomorrow as they deal  with the fallout from two  fresh injury  blows likely to keep Andy Robinson  and Enoch Showunmi on the sidelines  for a month or more.

Playmaker Robinson underwent  knee surgery after damaging his cartilage in training this week, while new  scans on Enoch Showunmi’s leg have  shown up a problem in the area where  the tall target man sustained a fracture last April.

Unless manager Les Parry can force  through a loan signing at express  speed, Rovers will have to make do and  mend at Huish Park, where they will  be attempting to break a sequence of  four successive away defeats.

Parry said: “Andy Robinson has had  an operation on his knee. He tore the  cartilage this week.

“It is a bit of a blow for us  because he’s going to be  out for four to six weeks.  I’m hoping it will be four  weeks but it’s more likely  to be six.

“We had the results of  Enoch’s scan and it is not  good news. He still has  a little problem in that  leg and it looks like he  is not going to be  available for a number  of weeks.” while he rests it.”

Robinson would  have been hoping for  a recall to the starting line-up at Yeovil,  in the creative attacking role left open by  Jose Baxter’s return to  Everton last weekend.

Showunmi’s latest  setback simply adds to the  pressure on Tranmere to find a central  striker to back up Mustafa Tiryaki,  who has been leading the line in recent games in the absence of last season’s leading marksman.

The 24-year-old is learning to adapt  his game to the demands of League  One football after joining Tranmere  from nonleague Havant and Waterlooville last summer.

Tiryaki started Tranmere’s last  game, the 2-2 draw against Brentford  at Prenton Park last Saturday and  Parry said: “He put in a really good  shift. He was running on empty for the  last 15 minutes but he had to stay on  because we had no-one  to replace him.

”Our cover isn’t deep enough.”

Parry has the option of switching  Lucas Akins from wide on the right to  the central striker’s role but he does  not have a player who is a natural fit  for the creative “role in the hole” that  was so well suited to the talents of  Robinson and Baxter.

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