Albion manager Chris Hughton has welcomed an array of selection dilemmas for the first league game of his reign at Charlton on Saturday.
Hughton’s hands were tied for last Saturday’s FA Cup victory at Brentford.
A mixture of departed loan signings, injuries, illness and suspension robbed him of ten players for the third round win at Griffin Park.
Right-back Bruno is available after a three-match ban for the trip to The Valley.
Left-back Joe Bennett and Spanish striker Adrian Colunga are expected to recover from injuries and England under-21s midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey has been given time to recover after he was unwell over the post-Christmas period.
Kazenga LuaLua, Dale Stephens and Andrew Crofts all remain varying periods of time from a return to action but, with skipper Gordon Greer and striker Sam Baldock both making comebacks from several weeks out injured at Brentford, Hughton has much more choice for the Charlton test.
He told The Argus: “You would rather have as many players available as possible.
“Of course, we have got some important players who have been out for a long period of time, which is disappointing, but you have to accept that at every club.
“But the ones you can get back are very welcome, alingned to hopefully bringing some in during this window to give us more options.
“You would rather have players available so that you now have to make choices and decisions, as opposed to probably close to what we had on Saturday where the team more or less picked itself.
“The more players available gives us a bigger and better training group as well.”
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Hughton’s hands were tied for last Saturday’s FA Cup victory at Brentford.
A mixture of departed loan signings, injuries, illness and suspension robbed him of ten players for the third round win at Griffin Park.
Right-back Bruno is available after a three-match ban for the trip to The Valley.
Left-back Joe Bennett and Spanish striker Adrian Colunga are expected to recover from injuries and England under-21s midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey has been given time to recover after he was unwell over the post-Christmas period.
Kazenga LuaLua, Dale Stephens and Andrew Crofts all remain varying periods of time from a return to action but, with skipper Gordon Greer and striker Sam Baldock both making comebacks from several weeks out injured at Brentford, Hughton has much more choice for the Charlton test.
He told The Argus: “You would rather have as many players available as possible.
“Of course, we have got some important players who have been out for a long period of time, which is disappointing, but you have to accept that at every club.
“But the ones you can get back are very welcome, alingned to hopefully bringing some in during this window to give us more options.
“You would rather have players available so that you now have to make choices and decisions, as opposed to probably close to what we had on Saturday where the team more or less picked itself.
“The more players available gives us a bigger and better training group as well.”
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