Wales say fly-half Dan Biggar is fit and they have not yet ruled out Gareth Anscombe and Liam Williams for the World Cup quarter-final against Argentina on Saturday.

Wales have injury concerns over fly-halves Biggar and Anscombe and full-back Williams for the Marseille match.

Head of physical performance Huw Bennett stated on Monday everybody was fit for selection.

Assistant coach Jonathan Thomas confirmed that remained the situation.

Thomas said on Tuesday Anscombe and Williams had been jogging in training and would continue to be assessed before the team is set to be announced on Thursday.

Injury updates

Doubts will persist over Anscombe’s fitness after he suffered a groin injury while kicking in the warm-up before Wales’ 43-19 victory against Georgia.

Anscombe was pulled out of the starting side and was replaced by Sam Costelow, with Biggar coming on to the bench where he was an unused replacement last weekend.

Biggar had himself suffered a pectoral injury in the early stages of Wales’ record 40-6 victory against Australia in Lyon.

Anscombe came on as a replacement for Biggar in that game and produced a 23-point player-of-the-match performance.

Full-back Williams suffered a knee injury in the Georgia game and left the ground in Nantes on crutches.

“All of those said injured players are at this stage, looking positive,” said Thomas.

“We’ll make that call closer to the end of the week. It’s probably not as bad as first feared when that happened pre-game to Gareth, and Liam in the game. They’re recovering, it’s quite positive, but we’ll see.

“The crutches makes it look worse for Liam. It’s just trying to offload any pressure. It doesn’t mean he’s done anything severe. He was jogging about today with the medics. It’s pretty positive.”

Thomas was asked what training Anscombe could do and whether he could kick which Thomas could not confirm.

“I saw him jogging around on the pitch along with Liam,” said Thomas.

“He’s at that stage where the first 48 hours after you have a knock are important in terms of assessing it and seeing if the inflammation will go down.

“The medics have a better understanding once that has happened.”

Thomas reiterated the “positive” update but added: “Now that’s not me committing to saying they’ll definitely be available. It’s an ongoing thing and it’ll evolve every day, seeing how much they’re able to do.

“What I can confirm is they were both running around with the medics, doing some return to running.

“They will try progress that each day. All of those players that are injury risks are in the running. The door is not closed on any of them.”

When Wales trained at Stade Felix Mayol after Thomas had spoken, Williams was jogging with the rest of the squad, while Anscombe disappeared down the tunnel as soon as he arrived.

Williams has been in impressive form in France, starting three of the four pool victories as Wales topped the group.

His natural direct replacement would be Leigh Halfpenny, while wing Louis Rees-Zammit has slotted into the full-back role during games.

Source: BBC