Teixeira on return trail

Portuguese playmaker Filipe Teixeira has returned to training and is in line to make the squad for the Liverpool clash on Saturday.

Teixeira was in line to make a comeback against Manchester United recently after being out for seven months with a knee ligament injury, but he then picked up a calf strain and his return was put on hold. He has now shaken off that problem though and is in line to play at Anfield on Saturday.

Baggies boss Tony Mowbray told the Express and Star: "He will train this week. He joined in bits and pieces last week. If he comes through this week then he'll have a fair chance of maybe travelling with the squad.

"There is no reserve game, although we do have a practice game where the youth team may get a run out. We don't know what the level of opponents will be, so we will have to wait and see whether Filipe is involved.

"He will be bursting to get going and maybe that was part of the reason why he wasn't ready before. He probably pushed himself a fraction too much and stretched a few fibres in his calf, which has now settled down again and he is just about ready."