Walsall striker Aaron Pressley to miss Bromley clash with hamstring injury
Aaron Pressley has been ruled out of Walsall's home clash against Bromley on Saturday, although his hamstring injury is not as serious as first feared.
The 24-year-old, who has scored four times in 17 games this season, sustained the injury during training on Thursday last week.
He was forced to sit out the Saddlers' 2-0 win at Harrogate Town on Saturday and had a scan on Monday.
After receiving the results, Sadler said he is hopeful Pressley will be pushing for a return against Gateshead in the FA Cup, or the following weekend against Shrewsbury Town on December 13.
"His scan was not as bad as we thought which is good. He won't be available for Saturday though," Sadler confirmed.
"But we're hopeful for Gateshead, or if not, then the following weekend. Positive news on that front because we thought it was going to be a lot worse.
"We were very positive when those scan results came in, but we have to look after him and make sure he is right.
"Because it's in an area of his hamstring where we just have to be very careful with and we don't want to rush him back."
Sadler slams the brakes on Burke's comeback
Harrison Burke returned to training towards the end of last week and has trained again in full this week after recovering from a knee injury.
The defender has not featured since a 2-1 win over Bristol Rovers on October 4 and will not be involved once again as Sadler wants to avoid rushing him back into action.
"Harrison has trained this week, but he's not available yet. We want to get him to where he is fully pain free before he is fully available," Sadler added.
"I hoped that would be Stevenage. It might be, but we also don't want to rush him and there is probably no need to just yet."
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