Injured West Ham striker back in partial training | OneFootball

West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo says striker Pablo has taken part in some aspects of training as he works his way back from injury.

The January signing has played six times for the Hammers but picked up a calf injury at the beginning of February.

On his progress, Espirito Santo said: “Pablo is not ready yet.

“He has joined individual programmes, and parts of the sessions. We are assessing day-by-day.

“Hopefully everybody else is going to be available for Fulham.”

West Ham are currently 18th in the league and are two points behind 17th-placed Nottingham Forest and four points behind Tottenham in 16th.

Asked if he watched both of those teams play, and lose, this past weekend, he replied: “I watch all games. All the games in the Premier League I watch. We focus on ourselves. We didn’t achieve the result we wanted to achieve in our game. We have to focus on that. It is very important.”

A potential bonus in the run-in to the end of the season is that many of Espirito Santo’s players will have an extra source of motivation other than just avoiding relegation with their club.

“It will only motivate them,” he said. “Going to a World Cup is really important for a football player. It is the dream that all of us in the game have.”