Joe Allen: Wales midfielder hopes to be fit for World Cup opener

Joe Allen came disconnected aft 31 minutes of Swansea's triumph implicit Hull connected 17 September and has not played since

Midfielder Joe Allen hopes to beryllium acceptable for Wales' World Cup opener contempt not playing since September due to the fact that of a hamstring injury.

Allen, 32, is simply a highly influential fig for Wales and is their biggest fittingness interest arsenic they hole to play astatine their archetypal World Cup since 1958.

"I'm hoping to beryllium acceptable for the archetypal game. There isn't overmuch time, but this is an important week for me," helium said.

"It's improving, thankfully. I'm doing everything I tin to get myself acceptable for the World Cup.

"I truly privation to beryllium my fitness. We'll person to spot however this week goes, but I consciousness assured and comfy that it won't beryllium excessively overmuch of a problem."

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Allen's wounded has been a root of consternation for nine and country.

Swansea City caput manager Russell Martin said the club's attraction of the wounded "wasn't bully enough", adding that it "could person been avoided".

When Wales manager Robert Page named his 26-man squad for the World Cup helium said: "It's not perfect if I'm honest, but we're giving him [Allen] each accidental to get him acceptable to get into the starting XI for the archetypal game."

However, contempt the archetypal complications successful his recovery, Allen hopes helium volition beryllium acceptable to look the United States having gone to large lengths to heal his hamstring.

"At the start, I was a spot unlucky successful presumption of knowing what precisely the occupation was but, thankfully, we did observe however atrocious the wounded was," helium told Newyddion S4C.

"Since then, we made a betterment program and worked hard. I'm thankful I've had truthful overmuch assistance from everyone astatine Swansea and Wales.

"I've been to Liverpool to spot a specializer and had a hyberbaric oxygen enclosure successful my house. I've thrown everything it.

"By now, things are going good and hopefully I'll beryllium acceptable for the commencement of the tournament."

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