Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be sidelined for six to eight weeks after suffering a knee injury in training.
Oxlade-Chamberlain hasn’t featured for Arsenal since suffering an ankle injury against Barcelona at the end of February but he had been closing in on a return in one of Arsenal’s last two games of the season before falling to injury once again.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has now confirmed the England international will not be fit in time for the European Championships and has called the news ‘very sad’.
“There is no chance,” Wenger is quoted as saying by The Guardian when asked if the Ox had a chance of recovering in time for the Euros.
“I had a conversation with Alex and with our medical team and they told me he will be back in July. He was out for a while and was not overloaded with games.
“You want a guy of 22 years of age to go to the European Championships so it is very sad.”
Oxlade-Chamberlain has struggled for form and fitness this season and there is an argument to suggest Roy Hodgson wouldn’t have selected him even if he was fit. The Ox could well have played his last game for Arsenal, with reports suggesting he could be sold in the summer after failing to live up to his early hope.
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