Mark Robins confirmed that Tatsuhiro Sakamoto is currently in hospital, as he awaits further information on his condition.
The winger went up for a header in the first half, but landed awkwardly, suffering an injury which saw him stretchered off.
Speaking after the final whistle, Robins told how he believes the injury could be a severe one.
Update on Tatsuhiro Sakamoto…
“It’s not a good injury at all. He’s got up really high and landed down on his back and hip.
"I don’t want to speculate on things, but it looks like a really bad injury.
"I didn’t anticipate it being as bad as it seems. He’s in some pain and he’s in the hospital now.
"I’m just awaiting information when it comes, and I’m hoping and praying that he’s okay.
"He’s going to be out for a while but I’m just hoping that he’s going to be okay.”
Looking back at the game…
“It’s been as bad as it’s been for a good few years. Even the stoke game when we lost 4-0 last year, it was worse than that.
"Sometimes the game gets away from you early in the game. Today was that. We conceded after a minute with a really poor goal, and we have to defend that better.
We can concede goals form corner, you don’t always get it your own way, but they set their stall out from the first minute and we didn’t cope with that.
We’ve been old-maned, they have an experience line up and they have run harder than us and fought harder than us and they have done the dirty side better than anyone who has been here and they deserved to win there’s no doubt about it, it’s just the manner of the defeat.”
Not feeling sorry for ourselves…
“There was no pride in that, it didn’t even look like a performance it looked like a group of individuals who looked scared stiff and let them get on top of us.
There were some poor individual performances and decisions, and we have to look at that and its even difficult to pick the bones out of it because it was so poor.
We can’t feel sorry for ourselves, we have to be ready to go again Monday.
we have to take this on the chin and take all the criticism we’re going to get and stick out chest out and put in a performance Monday.”
Changes during the game…
“It’s difficult to make changes when I’m hamstrung with injuries that we’ve got. Torp was ok, but he couldn’t start the game today and if he did, he wouldn’t have been able to play next week.
If I played him from the start he would have torn his calf properly, so those things I have to weigh up.”