West Brom boss confirms massive double fitness boost ahead of Leeds United clash.
Leeds United’s first Championship away-day of the season is at the Hawthorns on Saturday.
Carlos Corberan has received a major fitness boost with West Brom hoping to have Jed Wallace and Grady Diangana back in the squad for Saturday’s visit of Leeds United to the Hawthorns.
The attacking pair have both missed West Brom’s opening two fixtures after picking up calf injuries at different ends of pre-season. Diangana has been working on his fitness individually for some time after suffering the issue in July while Wallace fell foul of muscular problems much more recently, and less severely.
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Both were expected to miss Saturday’s first home league game of the season but returned to training on Thursday. And Corberan is holding out hope they can be involved against Leeds, but suggested neither will be rushed back with so much of the campaign left to plan for.
“Jed and Grady have both trained today (Thursday) with the group,” Corberan told The Express And Star. “It was not strong training but it was training. If both players react well from it, they will train tomorrow (Friday) and if both are well with the situation that we have right now both have options to be involved in the squad.
“I will be happy when both players are ready to perform. We know that Grady didn’t make pre-season because he arrived with the injury. Wallace did part of the pre-season, not a full one. He had the problem during pre pre-season so it is a similar feeling but it is always good to recover players.”
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Any involvement will likely come from the bench, given both are ahead of schedule going into the weekend, but their presence would be a major boost for Corberan who remains light in attacking areas. Karlan Grant and Tom Fellows occupied the flanks during Albion’s 3-1 win over Queens Park Rangers last weekend but were both rested midweek, with Lewis Dobbin and Devante Cole out wide for the Carabao Cup defeat against Fleetwood Town.
