Albion ace Kazenga LuaLua will have to prove his fitness in training if he is going to face former club Newcastle in the FA Cup.

Boss Gus Poyet hopes to have LuaLua and fellow winger Craig Noone available for a full session today with the first team squad as they continue their recoveries from hamstring injuries.

Poyet said: “I hope one or both of them will be with me today but that will depend on how they recover from yesterday.

“They have been training, in different ways because they have different bodies, but they have been doing sessions outside, running and ball work.

“The good thing with Kaz is he’s not the type of player who won’t do anything in training and then just play. He needs to do what he does in games during training, so he needs to do it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

“With Nooney it’s a bit different. His ability to go past people is not so much about speed and over a long distance. He can get the ball in a tight space where as Kazenga is more about speed and power.”

Albion are waiting for the results of a scan on the recurrence of hamstring trouble which forced left-back Marcos Painter off just six minutes into his comeback at Peterborough on Saturday.

Poyet said: “We went through what happened to Marcos and we are having another meeting today and another one on Wednesday. I suppose from those meetings we will come up with a final decision, because of course we are trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Newcastle are preparing for Saturday’s fourth round tie at The Amex with a warm weather break in Tenerife and could have Watford defender Adrian Mariappa aboard by then.