Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has no concerns about his side's lack of height in attack following the exits of Kenwyne Jones and Darren Bent.
The Black Cats have sold strikers Jones and Bent in the last seven months, with the Trinidad and Tobago international in particular a formidable aerial presence.
With Danny Welbeck and Fraizer Campbell having missed significant periods of the season through injury - Welbeck returned from a knee injury as a substitute in the 0-0 draw at Arsenal last time out and Campbell is not far behind - Bruce has largely employed summer signing Asamoah Gyan as a lone frontman.
The pacy Ghana international has demonstrated an eye for goal and has found the back of the net on 10 occasions to date, but is not a traditional English-style centre-forward.
In addition, the men who have provided the support in recent weeks - Steed Malbranque, Kieran Richardson, Stephane Sessegnon and Bolo Zenden - are significantly smaller, and that has meant Bruce adopting a different approach to the one he used when Bent played off the shoulder of Jones.
However, the manager is comfortable with that situation in the final third and instead more concerned with a lack of height at defensive set-pieces which has at times proved costly in the absence of the likes of Michael Turner and Nedum Onuoha through injury.
Bruce said: "You could say that about us when we have got Sessegnon, Malbranque, Richardson and Bolo Zenden in the team.
"They are not the biggest - but I am not particularly bothered about the height up front.
"Asamoah Gyan has relished playing on his own. In the games we have played, we have looked a threat and I think he likes to play on his own because he has always been used to doing that.
"I have got no problems with the height up front - but what we could do with is height all round.
"But you can still be the biggest team and if you don't defend set-pieces properly, then you are going to come unstuck.
"We are not the biggest at the moment, but with the players we have missing, there's not much you can do about it."
