U.S. men’s national team fans can breathe a sigh of relief after Fulham head coach Marco Silva provided some good news on Antonee Robinson’s ankle injury.
The severity of the left back’s injury has not been clear since he was forced out of Fulham’s match against Tottenham on September 3.
Robinson was left off the USMNT roster for this month’s friendlies, with head coach Gregg Berhalter admitting this week: “We’re not sure exactly when he’s going to be back in training.”
But, speaking ahead of Fulham’s match against Nottingham Forest on Friday, Silva said that Robinson was closing in on a return.
“It will be difficult, I have to be honest,” Silva said of Robinson’s participation in the Forest match.
“But we have some more hours until the game and we have to check him, like we have been doing every single day, to take the decision.
“It’s not really serious, and because of that we are testing every day how he feels.
“It’s something that could be one or two days, [that’s] the feedback that I received from the medical staff.
“We need to check again because he doesn’t feel really comfortable yet, but I think soon we will have Robinson again.”
Robinson has been an ever-present for Fulham so far in 2022-23, starting all six of the team’s Premier League matches.
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