Nottingham Forest and Steve Cooper have been given a big, and unexpected, boost ahead of their return to Premier League action next week with summer signing Moussa Niakhate potentially returning from a hamstring injury.
The centre-back picked up the injury in the 1-0 win over West Ham United at the City Ground last month. The injury has seen the 26-year-old sit out the last six Premier League matches, with the prognosis saying that he’d be out for ‘a few months'.
It does, however, seem that the player may have recovered quicker than initially expected. The defender was called up to the Senegal national squad for the current international break and could now potentially make his international debut, having been named on the bench for the international friendly against Bolivia.
