The Toulouse full-back risked his injured right knee to help the reigning European Cup champions defeat the Scarlets 49-42 on Saturday.

Thomas appeared to struggle in the final moments of the 11-try feast, but the 31-year-old, who had his leg heavily bandaged at Stradey Park, reassuringly said he will be ready for the Twickenham match on February 4.

Ill be going to the England game full of confidence and full of running, he said.

It wasnt ideal for me on Saturday and it was difficult for me to run because my leg was so heavily strapped but Im looking forward to next weekends game against Pau and then, if selected, the England game.

I had a bit of a problem in the last five minutes but once I started jogging it was fine.

Ill have a good week training with Wales, theyve got some new device for my knee, its something for horses, I hope its for racehorses and not carthorses, and Ill have loads of physio.

It was important for me to play, coming back to Wales and it was a massive game for us [Toulouse]. I had to play a match before the England game.

''I feel great, but Ill feel even better come Monday when I am back in the squad with the boys. It will take more than this knee to stop me playing.

Thomas played his part in the thrilling encounter in Llanelli and would have had his name on the scoresheet had he not embarrassingly dropped a try-scoring pass in the opening minutes.

That was bad, Wales leading try-scorer said afterwards. Hopefully there wont be too many of those again, but these things happen.

Thomas was full of praise for a Llanelli side that battled from 49-30 behind to come within a converted try of the French aristocrats.

We have played some top teams in Europe and in the French league and no team has pushed us as close as the Scarlets have, he said.

It was a great game of rugby and a great advertisement for French and Welsh rugby. If we hadnt brought our strongest team we wouldnt have won. It was important to get a home quarter-final tie because its an intimidating place for any team to come.