Livingston boss David Martindale 'gutted' by ankle injury to striker

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Livingston boss David Martindale admits he’d be ‘gutted’ if an ankle injury prevented striker Bruce Anderson from breaking the club’s Premiership scoring record.The 23-year-old picked up an ankle injury in training earlier in the week and has twice been sent for scans to find the extent of the damage.Signed from Aberdeen in the summer, the striker had been in stunning form of late - bagging seven goals in his last 13 appearances for the club and being named the Premiership Player of the Month for February.That purple patch has Anderson sitting on 11 league goals for the campaign and sits one behind Derek Lilley’s club-best figure of 12 in a top flight season from the 2003/04 season.The gaffer confessed a best case scenario could see Anderson miss three weeks but it could be longer.He commented: “I think Bruce is in a really good run of form and this has probably happened at the peak of him playing this season.“He’s kind of hit the ground running since January.

It’s a wee bit of a sore one for Bruce personally, he was chasing the goal scoring record.“I’m gutted for him and also the team.

We need to wait on the results and see how long he’ll be out.”He added: “The bit of hope you’re holding onto is that he might only be out for a couple of weeks but I don’t think so.“It was so innocuous.

There was no contact, the ball was at the other side of the park and he went down, we heard him scream and thought he was kidding on.“He got a scan but the swelling was too big and he was due to get a further one.