BRADFORD City manager Michael Duff has confirmed that attacking midfielder Bobby Pointon will be out until the new year with a knee injury picked up in Saturday's FA Cup slaying of Marine.

Pointon came off in the first half and scans have revealed an MCL injury, Duff confirmed after his side's 4-0 win over York City in the club's final EFL Trophy Northern Group C fixture on Tuesday evening.

The City chief also revealed that Cam Dawson will be out for four weeks after pulling his calf ahead of the warm-up on Saturday. That resulted in Zac Hadi being handed his competitive debut in goal against the Minstermen, with Jon McCracken on international business.

Meanwhile, George Lapslie could be sidelined for four weeks with a hamstring injury.

Bradford City boss Michael Duff, pictured during the EFL Trophy win over York City. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

placeholder image — Bradford City boss Michael Duff, pictured during the EFL Trophy win over York City. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Duff has at least been afforded some good news with Josh Neufville (hamstring), out since September 19, set to return for the Yorkshire derby at home to Doncaster Rovers on November 21.

Duff said: "Bobby is the real blow. Bobby's going to be (out) eight weeks, minimum.

"But we're waiting to see a result. He's off to see a specialist, so we need to see what the results of that are. The scans show it's an MCL, so it's not great news.

"Josh Neufville will be available now. He's been full training.

Bradford City's Stephen Humphrys gets away from York's Lewis Beadle. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

"He's been with the sports scientist all up until about a week ago, where he's getting sort of match distances and match numbers, unopposed. Then he's trained fully for the last three or four days. And then doing extras on top of that as well.

"So he'll be a big plus. But obviously, you don't want to lose two for every one that you get back. But it's football.

"Everyone gets injuries, it's how you react to them. Cam's (injury) is four weeks.

"Laps, we think, is going to be about four weeks (out) with his hamstring."

City confirmed top spot - and a home draw - in the knock-out phases following a convincing win over York, with Antoni Sarcevic, Stephen Humphrys, Will Swan and Nick Powell all netting for the hosts, who scored three goals in the last half-hour.

It took the Bantams' haul of goals in their past two cup/trophy games to 11.

Alongside Hadi, academy products Leeroy Gomes, Gabe Holt and Oliver Hewitt made their debuts, while Harry Ibbitson was handed his home bow.

Duff said: "After the first 15 minutes, we were really good.

"We didn't quite get the press right on a couple of bits in the first 15 minutes but after that, it was really positive night. Clean sheet, I think that's eight clean sheets in nine games. Four goals, four senior attacking players scoring four goals.

"Five debuts, seven academy players on the pitch... Top of the group, and a crowd of two-and-a-half thousand here as well, which you didn't expect. So I thought it was a good game.

"It was a good night all round."