Niclas Füllkrug is ready to return to the West Ham United matchday squad after recovering from the hamstring injury that has sidelined him for the past two-and-a-half months.
The Germany international centre-forward was hurt during Head Coach Graham Potter’s first game in charge on 10 January this year, an Emirates FA Cup third-round defeat at Aston Villa.
The 32-year-old has worked hard to return to action and will take his seat on the team coach to Wolverhampton for Tuesday’s Premier League fixture with Wanderers at Molineux.
However, the game will come too soon for another player who suffered a hamstring injury in that FA Cup tie at Villa Park, winger Crysencio Summerville, who is still working his way back to fitness at Rush Green training ground.
“Summerville, no [he won’t be available], but Füllkrug has been training with the group and will more than likely be in the squad,” Potter revealed, speaking in his pre-match press conference on Monday morning. “So we've just got to obviously build his minutes up in terms of what he's able to do. He hasn't played competitive football for a while and he's had a fairly significant injury, but he's training well and he's building his fitness up, so he'll be in the squad.
“You can do all the rehab in the world and you can train as well, but you can't beat and you can't almost replicate Premier League competitive minutes, so that's the next stage for him. But whatever role we can give him, he'll do it as best as he can, and then it's good to have him back in the squad.