Blades to look for loan replacement

The Blades may also be without goalkeeper Mark Bunn if his parent club Blackburn Rovers demand that he returns to Ewood Park as cover for former Leeds goalkeeper Paul Robinson, who was injured at the weekend.

Morgan was booked for the tenth time this season in the 1-1 draw with Queens Park Rangers which means he will miss the next two games against Blackpool and Doncaster Rovers.

Assistant manager Sam Ellis said: "We are short of players now so will have to see if we can get a loan in for Tuesday, no doubt about that. None of the injured players are likely to be fit so it gives us a major problem over the next 48 hours."

Defender Kyle Bartley, on loan from Arsenal, missed Saturday's game with food poisoning and Ellis thinks he is unlikely to be available tomorrow night.

"We don't think Bartley will be back," he said. "The doctor say it is a bad bout of food poisoning and he would be ruled out on Tuesday.

"Whether Blackburn recall Bunn or not is another problem for us. The problems are piling up."

Ellis was disappointed with Saturday's result against QPR and highlighted individual mistakes.

Defender Marcel Seip was caught napping by Adel Taarabt for the equaliser and striker Darius Henderson allowed a late chance to go begging.

"We are not that happy with the result because we felt we dominated the game to a certain extent and created the best chance you could have wished for in the 89th minute but couldn't stick it away," he said.

"I think it went through Darius's legs and there is not a lot you can do about that is there? If that comes, you ought take it.

"We also let in a soft goal, didn't we? It was a poor goal to concede."

Ellis, however, insists that the Blades deserve credit for staying in the play-off hunt.

"Our away form isn't good enough – there is no doubt about that – but the players have done fantastic to stay where we are.

"We are one game off the play-offs and without the problems we have had, we would be in the play-offs," he said.