The striker was hurt in the closing moments of Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Everton, being carried off after a challenge from Denis Stracqualursi. There had been fears that Rodallega had suffered serious knee ligament damage and would be out for up to three months. But while Martinez cannot give a timescale for the Colombian's return, he says it will not take as long as the Latics had initially thought. He told the club website: "The scans came back really positively, it doesn't seem there are any big concerns in terms of the structure of the knee. "We won't know how long he's exactly going to be out but what's clear is that the injury is not as bad as we first thought. "It's fantastic news and now we are going to make sure that Hugo recovers well and gets back on the football pitch as quickly as possible. "He's the sort of player who lives to play the game, so he will be desperate to get fit. "It's going to be a difficult period but in the same way it's going to allow us to work on different aspects of his full fitness and we'll make sure that when he comes back he is a stronger player than the one who suffered the challenge."
