Seamus Coleman makes Everton comeback tonight with under-23 match after leg break agony
Irish right-back suffered a sickening fracture during a World Cup qualifier for Republic of Ireland against Wales in March
SEAMUS COLEMAN will complete a 10-month comeback from his horror leg break with a game for Everton’s under-23 side on Tuesday night.
The right-back suffered the sickening fracture during a World Cup qualifier for Republic of Ireland against Wales in March.
And the 29-year-old has just enjoyed his week back in full training after completing the road to rehabilitation.
The former Sligo man last featured for Sam Allardyce’s side in March 2017, in a 4-0 Premier League victory over Hull.
Coleman can now start looking at the remaining Toffees fixtures and target a date for his Premier League return.
Everton’s U23s – managed by former interim first-team boss David Unsworth - face Portsmouth at Goodison Park.
Since moving to the Merseyside club from Ireland in 2009, Coleman has scored 18 goals in 206 league appearances.
Allardyce confirmed at the end of December that Coleman had returned to training but that initial return was always a long way off match-fitness.
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The defender has his comeback boosted by a state-of-the-art medical machine that appears to have sped up his recovery.
Allardyce said: “Coleman is coming on OK, he's out running with the rehab lads.
“He's twisting and turning, not really doing any more than that at this moment in time, but he's progressing nicely they say.
“We have a new machine which is the latest in the market so he's a little bit of a guinea pig on that, but it seems to be working from that point of view, to speed up the recovery process and there are few more players who will be testing it out in the next week or two.”
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