Martin Ho has confirmed that defender Charlotte Grant faces a spell on the sidelines with a knee injury.
The Australia international picked up the issue in training this week at Hotspur Way and, in result, she has been ruled out of Sunday’s trip to Bristol City in the Subway Women’s League Cup group phase (3pm UK).
Our Head Coach went on to report that alongside ‘Charli’, who has withdrawn from the Matildas squad for the upcoming international break, Araya Dennis will also not travel to this weekend's encounter at Robins High Performance Centre.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon, Martin told the media: "Charli had a little of a bump in training and she will have a little bit of a setback in the short term now, so we need to make sure we can help her with it.
"She was in today and she was in good spirit, in a good place, so we need to make sure we support her with the little niggle in her knee injury. We need to get that right and we will do that over the next few weeks.
"The rest of the team is good - just the long-term absentees remain out. Araya has got a little knock, so she won't be available for the game. She will be back in training next week."
The long-term absentees are Ella Morris, Luana Buhler and Maite Oroz.