Nathan Broadhead hopes he has timed his comeback from injury to perfection as Sunderland look to secure a play-off place in the final month of the season. Broadhead was the Black Cats' hero when he came off the bench to score a 95th minute winner against Gillingham at the Stadium of Light at the weekend, lifting the club back into the play-off spots.
The 23-year-old on-loan Everton striker suffered a hamstring injury just before Christmas and, while he returned to action at the beginning of March at Charlton, he aggravated the problem and spent a further month on the sidelines. But Broadhead is confident that he is now fully over the injury and can now help Sunderland book a play-off slot over the remaining six games of the campaign.
"The thing with a hamstring is you have to be patient and I'm not really a patient guy with injuries," said Broadhead. "Maybe I came back maybe a bit too early [against Charlton], I don't know, but I felt good in my head at the time but my body never agreed with it.
