Rosaire Longelo is set for a month on the sidelines at Swindon Town after picking up an injury during the game at Crewe Alexandra.

Having started each of Swindon’s first three league matches, Longelo had to be substituted at the Mornflake Stadium after 72 minutes having picked up an injury in a challenge.

Kennedy said following the narrow 2-1 defeat to Notts County that the defender would be seeing a specialist to assess the severity of the injury this week.

The head coach said after that game that losing Longelo was a big blow because it left the team light at left wing-back, with George Cox arriving on Deadline Day but still awaiting international clearance.

Following another defeat at Exeter City, Kennedy revealed that the scan had shown that Longelo would be out for four weeks, although that is significantly less time than had been initially feared.

He said: “I think that it is really important to be honest on this and we have actually had really good news on Ros because at one point we thought he might be out for six months.

“He is looking at four weeks, that is really bad news, but in the scheme of things we are over the moon that it is only four weeks.”

In the other direction, Ryan Delaney got his first minutes as a Swindon player having returned to training after seven months out with a knee injury suffered at Newport County.

Kennedy said that he was delighted to see the defender take another step on his road to recovery having had a torrid time with injuries.

He said: “I am so pleased for him on a personal level because he has been through hell and although he has not been with us long it is easy to forget about what he has been through at his previous club with his injury.

“[The injury] has also hindered him in terms of integrating with the players when they are outside and you are inside, you don’t get to mix with them. It can be a lonely place being injured.

“He deserves a huge amount of credit because four weeks ago, we were going ‘This guy is so far away from fitness it is untrue’ and he has really put himself through the ringer.

“I think Jackson [Bradley, physio], Joseph [Headley, Head of Performance], and Ian [Hogan, Sports Therapist and Rehabilitation] deserve a huge amount of credit too.”