Chadi Riad

Riad (knee) is progressing well and resumed team training partially, although he remains one month away from resuming real football training with the squad, coach Oliver Glasner said in a press conference. "Chadi is doing better - he's now taking part in team training and now, it's of course, giving him training after training, seeing how the knee reacts and getting him back into this best shape. But I think it's now almost one year - from when we saw the first injury, one-and-a-half years. One week up or down is not important - it's just being consistently in training and starting to get minutes in the Under-21s, then being back for us. Yes, he had full training today, but it was matchday minus one training and after the warm-up, we had 15 minutes of tactical training, and then set-plays, so it's important for him to get real football training, intense training with duels, which we won't have until the middle of January."