Mohamed Touré – out until January (Image: Fred Palmer/Focus Images Ltd)
The City head coach confirmed that leading scorer Mo Toure will not return until January after surgery on a shoulder injury.
Kenny McLean remains sidelined (Image: Fred Palmer/Focus Images Ltd)
Skipper Kenny McClean will miss the trip but Ben Chrisene is in contention.
“Mo had surgery and he will be out in January, around that period, so that’s a long time,” said Clement.
“Kenny will be out a few more weeks, and Ben will be back – he’s been back in training now for a few days, so he’s in the selection for tomorrow, that’s one thing I can tell you about the selection.”
However, Clement was tight-lipped about the players who were withdrawn from international duties.
Jose Cordoba, Paris Maghoma, Kellen Fisher, Andre Brooks were all pulled out, while Anis Ben Slimane finished his stint with Tunisia early.
“I don’t want to go into all the different players, but we had these nine games in four weeks, so it’s been the most busy schedule that this club ever had in the start of the season,” he said.
“And out of these nine games were six away games and not just around the corner but on the other side of the country, most of them, so that cost a lot of energy clearly and a lot of players were in that last moment of that spell in a kind of overload clearly and they struggled with things, so a few of them recovered now and will be available.
“And that’s a good thing about this international period that it was longer than normal, that we still could recover a few players who normally were on international duty, but they were struggling with things that they had one or two weeks out with and now they will be back.
“Maybe not all, but we have several who can be available for the game, so that’s a positive thing.”
Chrisene’s return does mean that Clement does not have to advance Lucien Mahovo’s return from injury.
The full back played in the friendly against Brentford last weekend but won’t travel to Swansea.