Bjorn Sigurdarson is back on the road to the first team

Icelandic striker Bjorn Siguardarson made his long-awaited comeback from injury on Monday night – and is set for another appearance this Friday as he builds up his fitness ahead of a possible first-team return.

The 24-year-old last featured in Wolves colours back in December 2013.

He fell out of favour and boss Kenny Jackett has since sent him on loan to Molde and Stale Solbakken's Copenhagen.

The £2.5m signing is out of contract next summer and Jackett appeared to rule out Sigurdarson having a chance to play for Wolves again earlier this summer.

But Sigurdarson has now been told he can force his way into Jackett's plans, and after recovering from a debilitating back injury he played the opening 20 minutes of Wolves' 2-1 under-21 victory over Derby on Monday.

"He was fine, won a couple of flicks, straight down the middle," said Jackett. "He'll play some further part in a friendly against Liverpool on Friday.

"It's early days for him coming back and making sure he gets used to playing again, because he's been out for some time. It was always the plan for him to play 20 minutes and build up over the next few weeks in terms of what he's doing."

Jordan Graham and Jed Wallace were on the scoresheet for Wolves, and Jackett was impressed with what he saw – and the potential of the Wolves youngsters.

"It was a battling performance," he said. "Derby are a obviously a very strong club at present and have strength at every level.

"It was as good a side as we've put out for quite a while. There were only two starters over the age (Sigurdarson and Matt Doherty) – the rest of the lads were all under 21 which is very good.

"Jed Wallace got the winner, which is good, and there were some strong performances.

"Jordan is having a productive couple of months. He's improved.

"It's a position we haven't really got right (left wing) in terms of the first team.

"Whether it be looking for now – my first thing in an under-21s performance is who can effect the Ipswich game and then after that you start projecting further.

"There are, dotted around, some promising players at Wolves."

Meanwhile under-18s coach Jerry Gill has praised his youngsters after they went came through a testing week unbeaten.

Wolves beat fourth-placed Sunderland 4-2, despite playing with 10 men for 75 minutes, then drew 0-0 with third-placed Liverpool, again being a man down for most of the second half, before coming from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with second-placed Manchester City.

The under-18s play at Molineux on Thursday night against Middlesbrough, 7pm kick off.

Season ticket holders and members get in free, otherwise it's £4 for adults and £1 concessions.