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Eustace sweats on Tronstad injury

John Eustace says his Blackburn side will have to adapt to the loss of their "player of the season" if Sondre Tronstad misses games with a hamstring injury.

The midfielder was substituted after pulling up in the first half of the 1-0 defeat at Oxford United.

And Eustace told BBC Radio Lancashire the Norway international will be a huge miss if he is ruled out after assessment this week.

"Sonny has done something to his hamstring so we will have to look at that on Sunday. He has been player of the season up to now and you can see when he goes off the pitch we were a little bit different.

"We will have to adapt [if he is ruled out]."

Eustace said the Oxford defeat was a frustrating afternoon for his Rovers side.

"I didn't think we started very well and rode our luck in the first 15 minutes," he said. "But after that I thought we grew into it and played some good stuff.

"We were disappointed not to take any of our chances and we need to be better in that final third. Second half we couldn't match them for 10 minutes and then they have punished us with a very good free-kick.

"It is something we have to learn from. We are down to the bare bones with the squad and there are players who are having a second or third game in a week who haven't been playing as much.

"We have to learn from it and move on. It was pleasing to see the boys' efforts fighting and pushing at the end but we were not good enough."