David Raya will see a specialist this evening, with Tony Mowbray hopeful his goalkeeper could be available for next weekend’s game with Rotherham United.

Raya suffered a broken nose and required stitches to a facial injury picked up in the draw at West Brom last weekend.

The best case scenario could see the 23-year-old available to play next weekend with the aid of a mask.

However, should surgery be required, then the Spaniard could face around six weeks on the sidelines.

“My hope is that he can put a facial mask and play next weekend,” Mowbray said of his goalkeeper.

“Looking at him you wouldn’t have thought so because his face was swollen up, stitches across the bridge of his nose. The bridge of nose wasn’t really there, it was pressed in to his skull.

“He has a very different face to the face we are used to.

“Give him another week or so and the swelling will have gone down, the discolouration will have gone, the decision will be on whether he needs some sort of operation to restructure the nose back to what it was.

“If not, and the specialist thinks it will be fine and he can just put a mask on, then he could play next weekend.”