Wolves striker Chris Iwelumo is facing several weeks out of action after damaging the metatarsal he fractured during the pre-season summer trip to Australia.

The Scotland international started his first Barclays Premier League game against Stoke last weekend and impressed during the 2-2 draw, but he suffered the setback after Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen and Wolves central defender Christophe Berra landed on his foot.

It is another blow for Iwelumo after he had missed the climax to Wolves' promotion campaign with knee ligament damage.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy, whose side face Arsenal on Saturday, said: "Chris is not fit. He has damaged the fracture site. He has not refractured the metatarsal so please don't go away and say `It is broken' because he hasn't done that.

"He has unsettled it more than anything and he will be a few weeks out. It doesn't happen normally but Sorensen and Berra fell on him when he got his foot planted (in the ground).

"Where the actual fracture is and the metal screw goes in, it has been unsettled, disturbed, but not broken."