Coventry 'taking steps' to prevent spread of flu

Coventry City have brought in measures to try to prevent a flu bug spreading any further into their squad, says head coach Frank Lampard.

Defenders Bobby Thomas and Liam Kitching and midfielder Tatsuhiro Sakamoto all missed Saturday's 1-1 draw at Southampton through illness while defender Milan Van Ewijk (against Preston) and Victor Torp (against Ipswich) also missed previous matches.

"Since pre-Southampton where this all started to occur we've brought in measures," Lampard told BBC CWR.

"We all lived through the Covid era so we're more familiar (with isolating). We're separating players as much as we can and also staff who maybe don't have to be in the building as much haven't been around."

The Sky Blues are six points clear at the top of the Championship as they prepare to meet Swansea on Boxing Day (15:00 GMT) and Lampard is keen they are not hit by further absences.

"Dinner times and meetings, we've taken it all into account completely so we've tried to take as many steps as we can without affecting anything we do training wise.

"We're working through it. We're hopefully going to have some players fitter and fresher and in better condition than we did at the weekend. Obviously the players performed brilliantly considering the situation at the time."