18.12.2014 17:14 h

Hull defender Dawson out for a month

Hull City centre-back Michael Dawson will be out of action for at least a month after tearing his hamstring, manager Steve Bruce revealed on Thursday.

Dawson, who recently spent a month on the sidelines with an ankle problem, sustained the injury in the first 10 minutes of Hull's 2-0 defeat at Chelsea last weekend.

"Unfortunately it's a grade-two tear and it could be anything from three, four, five weeks minimum, I'd have thought," Bruce told a press conference.

"That's happened too much to us from the first day of the season with Robert Snodgrass to Dawson, to (Nikica) Jelavic to (Mohamed) Diame. It's been one thing after another in that department.

"We could do with a little more luck because we've had four or five with pretty ugly injuries and we could do without it."

Hull are currently second from bottom in the Premier League and host Swansea City on Saturday.