Coventry City have confirmed the injury of Ben Sheaf to a groin injury, with the player expected to be out for a minimum of six weeks.

Manager Mark Robins has admitted that the club may need to adopt a different approach to breakdown opposition teams in the wake of the loss of Sheaf and Van Ewijk.

was ruled out of Coventry’s match against Hull City on the weekend, the severity of his injury being unknown. Van Ewijk was also forced off early in the match with a thigh injury.

What has Mark Robins said about Ben Sheaf’s injury?

Robins confirmed Sheaf’s groin injury during his post-match press conference following the weekend’s match against Hull City.

“He’s strained his groin,” Robins told the media at the weekend, via CoventryLive.

“Well, it’s actually an adductor and he’ll be out for an unspecified period of time.

“It’s going to be at least a couple of weeks, I would have thought.”

“Ben is going to be out for a minimum of six weeks, which is a huge blow because that was the one area where we didn’t really strengthen in the summer,” Robins explained to the media after the Cardiff clash on Tuesday, via CoventryLive.

Robins acknowledged that due to the departure of Gus Hamer in the summer and the current absence of Sheaf, he may need to operate in a ‘different manner’ for the foreseeable future.

“Losing Gus [Hamer] we have lost 70 percent of our success rate in terms of his passing, but his passing was always penetrative and always got through teams, and that was what we were missing in large spells of the game. And that’s the challenge for us, moving forward, as to how we can break teams down.” Robins added.

“I have just got to make sure we have got enough in there or we might have to do things in a different way for the time being, but really we have to be braver than that because we have got good players in there that generally do the job.

“But, for whatever reason, for the two thirds of the first half we didn’t cause Cardiff any issues what-so-ever.”