Gera Expected to Return

Last updated : 13 September 2005 By Site Editor
The Hungarian international was left out of the Baggies squad for the home defeat to Wigan on Saturday having had a gruelling two game World Cup campaign for his country but assistant boss Nigel Pearson expects the influential midfielder to be back in the squad that travel to the Stadium of Light this weekend.

"Zoltan will hopefully be available by the weekend," Pearson told the clubs official website.

"He came back rundown and exhausted and he also still has an infection in the hand he had an operation on.

"He has a number of small problems but nothing I don't think a week of rest and preparation won't put right.

"But the international fortnight certainly took its toll on him and he was just not capable of playing on Saturday."