Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has said he expects to make his first-team return from a knee ligament injury next month.
Rooney has been out for eight games and will miss England’s upcoming friendlies against Germany (Mar. 26) and Netherlands (Mar. 29) but is eyeing a return for United’s Premier League fixture against his former club Everton on April 3.
“My recovery is going as planned. I don’t know for definite but (I should be back) after the international break,” Rooney said as he attended the unveiling of United’s partnership with Gulf Oil International on Monday.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”70560″]
“It has been eight games now I have missed and I didn’t realise it was that many. It has been frustrating.”
The 30-year-old striker said he would have plenty of time to prove his fitness ahead of England’s Euro 2016 campaign in France which begins in June with Group B matches against Russia, Wales and Slovakia.
“There could be ten games left for United, plus the England (warm-up) games, so I don’t think that (being fit for the Euro 2016) would be a worry.”
(Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru. Editing by Patrick Johnston)(Reuters)