Slaven Bilic has confirmed that West Brom trio Matheus Pereira, Callum Robinson and Branislav Ivanovic are all preparing to face Manchester United this weekend after all three players received negative coronavirus tests. Pereira and Ivanovic both missed Albion’s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur prior to the international break because of positive tests, while forward Robinson was also forced into self-isolation after emerging as a positive case while on duty for the Republic of Ireland.
Slaven Bilic said “Matheus and Branislav are back in training, They have quarantined and tested negative so they are back. We have to be fair, a few other players were positive so they haven’t trained for a few days and we are waiting for their results. Hopefully, they will be back for training tomorrow, maybe today [Thursday]. A few of the guys who were on international duty, they will be back today and have to do the test again as soon as they land. Hopefully they are going to go be good but we have a few cases, yes. The good thing is that Pereira and Ivanovic and back. They have been training the whole week. So they will be fine for the game against Man United. Callum Robinson tested positive but he was tested against last night [Wednesday] and he is negative so he is good. The club has done really great, We are where we want to be. We want to be present and influence the situation as much as we can. We are listening, we are in constant talks with the authorities – with the Premier League and with national teams. Yes, we have a few cases and we had it with Branislav and Pereira. We have had a few cases, the players and the staff also. They have been away for the last 10 days and now we are waiting for their results. We are doing everything we can, but I have had enough players to train and I have to praise them because the quality of training we have had during this international break has been great. It gives me a big expectation and big hope for our coming games, starting with Man United. We are still waiting for a few players who were on international duty who have to be tested but it looks good.”
