Raul Jimenez has played just over 200 minutes of Premier League football this season, absent for a struggling Wolves side as he battles against injury.
There’s been serious doubts about whether the striker will be fit to represent Mexico at the World Cup and that’s been a constant topic of discussion in the player’s home country.
Wolves have allowed Jimenez to travel to Mexico and continue his rehabilitation at the national side’s facilities. He’s not the only one there, with multiple players already with manager Tata Martino and preparing for the tournament in Qatar.
There’s been repeat comments on Jimenez’s fitness situation and whether there should be optimism or pessimism ahead of the World Cup. Martino has now given his view, and whilst he clearly sees some improvement in the Wolves player’s status, he’s still somewhat sitting on the fence.
Medio Tiempo quote the Mexico manager as saying: “The uncertainty is always present, because the issue of pubalgia is very sudden… because today I don’t have it (the injury) and tomorrow it reappears, but we do notice a change in him from how we saw him in Los Angeles; today, there is a resounding change.”
“Raul does four shifts (of rehabilitation), one of them after dinner, and he feels better; that face that we saw in Los Angeles is another, that if that means that he is going to be, well, we don’t know, but we did notice an evolution not only in the injury, but also in his state of mind.”
Raul Jimenez being fit and getting back to form at the World Cup would obviously be good news for Wolves.
