Steve Evans has confirmed that Liam Cooper is in contention for Wednesday night’s trip to Fulham after travelling down with the squad, despite limping off with injury during the closing stages of Saturday’s home loss to Brighton.

Cooper was forced off with just five minutes remaining on the clock at Elland Road following a clash inside the United half, meaning the hosts were forced to end the game with 10 men having used all three substitutions.

Evans says the centre-back will be assessed ahead of the game on Wednesday but insists he will “certainly be involved” at Bolton if he is unable to feature at Craven Cottage.

“I’ll give you a little surprise as Liam Cooper is going to be on the team coach as he trained this morning,” Evans said.

“The medical team have looked after Liam.

“I have seen the television pictures on Saturday, where you see the boy struggling like that but I have had a good chat with him and he has had a good fitness session with the medical team.

“Liam seems fit enough to say he’s good enough to go on the coach and as an experienced manager you see how he is tomorrow.

“If he’s not involved at Fulham then he will certainly be involved when we go across to Bolton on Saturday. That’s great news.”

Full-back Charlie Taylor, meanwhile, is set to be sidelined for “two to three weeks” after missing the visit of Brighton with a virus.

Evans said: “Charlie is just about a period of time and we are probably talking two or three weeks.

“He just has to have scan and make sure that there’s no potential damage going towards the spleen, that’s the technical term.

“All I know is it’s two or three weeks.”