Nathan Broadhead is back training on Wearside, with the on-loan striker's impending return offering Sunderland a much-needed boost in the final months of their faltering season.
Broadhead has not played since suffering a serious hamstring injury in the Black Cats' Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat at Arsenal the week before Christmas, which came at a time when he was a man in form having scored five goals in four games.
He went back to his parent club Everton to undergo treatment and rehabilitation work, but has this week been back at the Academy of Light as he works towards a comeback.