Bowyer Expects Evans Return

Corry Evans went through an underwhelming debut season as a player of Blackburn Rovers after picking up an injury that took him out of the 2^nd period of the previous campaign and the defender only managed on making 21 appearances for the Championship club but the head coach of the squad, Gary Bowyer is expecting Evans to fully recover from his recent injury issues as well as making his return from playing at the international stage with Northern Ireland.

Bowyer told reporters: “Corry is fine but we just wanted to give him a few more days as he was away with his country until the first week in June. We were more than happy for him to play in those games as he missed a big chunk of last season. It was a massive loss to us when he got injured. Credit to him, though, he came back from the injury and toward the end of the season he showed the quality he possesses his performance at Charlton, for example, was huge’’.

“So it was good for him to keep ticking over and play against two very good teams in Uruguay and Chile and now we can’t wait to have him back. He’s had a good rest and now we’re hoping he can have a really good pre-season and show what a good player he can be’’

The 23 year old defender was featured in the latest friendly matches of Northern Ireland as they locked horns with Uruguay and Chile. Evans was given time off from the initial pre-season stages of Blackburn Rovers as a way to cool down and give him enough rest from his international duties before kicking off with the club schedule and avoid any further unnecessary injuries.