West Brom top scorer Maja out with lower leg injury
Managerless West Bromwich Albion have been dealt another blow after losing top scorer Josh Maja with "a lower leg injury".
The 26-year-old is second-highest scorer in the Championship this season, with 12 goals from 26 matches, behind only Norwich City's Borja Sainz.
But Albion say he will have to undergo surgery, before a period of rehabilitation and that he will be out for "several weeks".
After a hat-trick in the surprise opening-day 3-1 win at Queens Park Rangers, Maja has continued to prove more prolific on the road, scoring in five more away games.
But he has now also scored four times at The Hawthorns, to move within three goals of Sainz, who is also currently not playing while he serves a six-game ban for spitting.
Albion are still without US international striker Daryl Dike, who has now been out almost a year after a second ruptured Achilles tendon in 10 months and is still only training sporadically.
Albion remain without a permanent head coach three weeks on from Carlos Corberan's departure on Christmas Eve.
Since then, Albion have climbed a place from seventh to sixth in the Championship table under the caretaker management team of club coaches Chris Brunt, Damia Abella and Boaz Myhill, picking up five points out of a possible 12.
They thought they were close to an appointment last week, but Swiss Raphael Wicky turned down the approach as he was not able to bring in his preferred backroom team.
Names continue to get linked with the role, the latest being Sean Dyche, but the former Watford, Burnley and Everton boss may not necessarily fit the club's original job spec for "expressive" football.
