Pellegrini: Wilshere can provide ´a good injection´

Manuel Pellegrini says Jack Wilshere’s imminent return from injury can provide West Ham with a welcome boost before the end of the season.

The former Arsenal midfielder moved to the London Stadium at the end of 2017-18 but has endured another injury-plagued campaign, with an ankle problem affecting him since September.

However, Pellegrini has confirmed that Wilshere is set to return to the fold for the run-in, starting with the Premier League clash against Leicester City on Saturday.

“Jack Wilshere is OK,” Pellegrini said at his media conference on Thursday. “He worked without problems.

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“We’ll see tomorrow how he feels. He played already one game for the Under-23s. We will talk with him but it will be soon – this week, next week. I hope that he will play some games before we finish the season.

“He’s a midfielder that we need because in that position we have had so many times all of them injured. [Andriy] Yarmolenko, Wilshere and [Manuel] Lanzini, so the return for Jack will be a good injection.”