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John McDougall

Bolton Wanderers injury latest on Kieran Lee and Ricardo Santos appeal ahead of Charlton Athletic

Bolton Wanderers have no fresh injury concerns ahead of tomorrow evening's clash against Charlton Athletic as they wait to hear the outcome of an appeal of Ricardo Almeida Santos' red card.

Santos was sent off over the weekend against Morecambe for alleged handball, but Wanderers have lodged an appeal and are hopeful it will be rescinded in time for tomorrow's game against the Addicks.

Gethin Jones was rested for the clash against the Shrimps and is back available for tomorrow's encounter.

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Kieran Lee was taken off at half time over a bone growth on his heel which is causing problems, but this is being managed and he is likely to have an operation in the summer to correct this.

But Wanderers have no fresh injury concerns as Jones was left out over the weekend over soreness from a now healed fractured fibula suffered earlier in the season and it appears to have paid dividends.

Evatt said: “Everybody is fit, healthy and available. We’ve obviously got the appeal lodged for Ricardo’s red and we’re waiting to hear back off that and there is a panel being brought together today to hear our appeal and look and evidence and make a decision on that.”

“It would be for tomorrow. We’re very hopeful and obviously we’ve all seen the images and the footage. It’s a very harsh decision, one that was probably wrong in my opinion, but we’ve got this appeal that can take place and they can see the same evidence that we’ve all seen and it gets rescinded, but we’re waiting to hear on that.

“He (Lee) has got a bit of a bone growth on his heel. It does need shaving. It is causing him some issue, but we can’t and won’t get it shaved until the summer. For now it’s just about managing pain and managing his workload.

"That’s why playing Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday is just impossible for him at the moment, so we’ll pick and choose our games for him and he’ll manage his heel accordingly. He will be part of the squad tomorrow.

"He’s (Jones) played a lot of football in a short space of time coming back from a stress fracture. We have to be really careful with him. He’s had some soreness around where the stress fracture was that didn’t really settle after Tuesday.

"It’s settled now so he’ll be available tomorrow night but we just didn’t want to take that risk on Saturday. It was the right decision.

“It was a decision we made together. Gethin is a wonderful young man and someone who is extremely honest and knows his body better than anybody.

"We had a conversation on Thursday and Friday and we just felt that he wasn’t in the right condition to be able to do himself justice on Saturday. We took the extra few days recovery with him and that seems to have paid off. He’s trained great today and will be available for tomorrow.”

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