Middlesbrough midfielder Didier Digard has returned to the club from the French national football academy in Clairefontaine, where he has been undergoing rehabilitation, and is expected to resume full training within a fortnight.

The 22-year-old has been sidelined since suffering a partial rupture of the quadriceps muscle in his left leg and a partial tear of the medial ligament in his right knee during the 0-0 draw with Wigan on February 21.