Fresh injury setback for Cambridge's Morrison

Cambridge United captain Michael Morrison is expected to be out for five weeks after suffering a calf injury in training.

It is the 37-year-old's third setback in a season in which he suffered a bruised lung in August and a hamstring injury in November.

Despite his absence, the U's are unbeaten in 11 League Two matches and have climbed to sixth in the table, just two points away from the automatic promotion places.

"It's a different injury, the hamstring was fine and he got back to training," boss Neil Harris told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

"Having Michael in the building is brilliant because he's such a good leader, and he runs a changing room brilliantly for us, so it's great in that sense. But also, he has been a very, very good player for a very long time - a very long time, in fact.

"Even in a relegation season his numbers were excellent in the games he played in, and at the start of this season [he was] outstanding - so losing Mike at his age, once he's back it'll be approaching three months, which is a long time."

Cambridge are at home to Tranmere Rovers on Saturday.

"I still think there's more to come, I still think we're going to grow and get better," Harris said.

"There's no point me saying, 'Don't worry about the league table, don't look at that.' For the first 10-12 games you don't, but at this stage there's a feelgood factor of wanting to be in that top seven... and you want to control that.

"We're going really nicely at the moment, but for us to continue what we're doing, we're going to have to keep winning, because if you look at what MK Dons and Salford have done, and what they can achieve in the transfer window, we have to make sure we keep improving as a group."