CHECKS will be made on the fitness of numerous players ahead of Sunday’s home clash with Leeds United (2pm).

Match-winner Marcus Tavernier was forced off during Thursday night’s win over Southampton, while other players were running on empty by full-time of the 1-0 victory.

Asked for an update on the fitness of his squad ahead of the weekend, boss Gary O’Neil said: “The boys are going to be extremely tired this morning, going through a recovery session as we speak.

“Tav obviously we need to see how he is this morning. That was obviously the real disappointing aspect to yesterday’s game, losing Tav to a hamstring.

“A couple of boys cramped up. Mati Vina ideally wouldn’t have done 90, but then Tav having to come off made that tricky.

“So Mati maybe did longer than he was meant to. We will have to see how he is.

“Marcos (Senesi) suffered some cramp as well, obviously hasn’t played as much recently.

“So there will be a few that we need to check.”

O’Neil added: “We’ll have a look whether we need to freshen it up a little bit, because some of the distances covered and the intensity of the game last night was very, very high.

“We need to have a look and make sure we get things right and give ourselves the best chance of being fresh enough to cause Leeds some problems.

“The boys are going to be extremely tired this morning, going through a recovery session as we speak.”