Madueke is among the Arsenal players who have been forced to leave their national team during the international break due to increasingly worrying injury problems. His compatriots Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice also left the England camp on Saturday, ahead of the friendly against Japan, to return to north London to undergo urgent medical tests.
Regarding this situation, England coach Thomas Tuchel said: “They (Saka and Rice) have had medical examinations. To make things clear: they desperately wanted to play. They desperately wanted to participate. It just didn’t make sense to take that risk. If it had been maybe the last game of the season, we would have kept them and tried everything. But at this point in the season, it made no sense. The risk of worsening their condition was simply too great. They were both in pain, clearly in pain, when we did the medical examination. So there was absolutely no reason for them to stay. »
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