Swansea City will assess Liam Cullen’s fitness after he returned from international duty having missed both of Wales’ Nations League fixtures.
Cullen was named in Craig Bellamy’s squad despite an ankle injury that kept him out of Swansea’s defeat at West Brom.
After some individual work, Cullen trained with teammates leading up to Friday’s home opener against Turkey, but withdrew from the camp on the day of the game through injury and returned to Swansea rather than travel to Montenegro.
Midfielder Oli Cooper – who earned his second cap when he replaced Jordan James late on in the 0-0 draw – is in Bellamy’s squad tonight, as is defender Ben Cabango, an unused sub in Cardiff.
Short of attacking options, Swans head coach Luke Williams will be keeping his fingers crossed over the fitness of three-cap frontman Cullen for Saturday’s visit of Norwich City,
Fellow striker Zan Vipotnik was on the bench for Slovenia in their 1-1 draw in Austria and is in the squad for tonight’s home clash with Kazakhstan.
Elsewhere, Eom Ji-Sung was also on the bench for South Korea in their goalless World Cup qualifying draw with Palestine, the once-capped midfielder’s first involvement with the senior national side in two years. The Taegeuk Warriors face Oman tomorrow.
Meanwhile, goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux was also back in Chile’s senior set-up for the first time in five years, although he did not get on the field at Bueno Aeries’ Estadio Monumental as goals from Alexis Mac Allister, Julian Alvarez and Paulo Dybala gave Argentina a 3-0 win, with Chile continuing their World Cup qualifying against Bolivia on Tuesday night.
There was, though, 90 minutes for full-back Nathan Tjoe-A-On who played in Indonesia’s 1-1 draw with Saudi Arabia in Jeddah, with their second World Cup qualifier of the international window at home against Australia in Jakarta tomorrow.