Wayne Rooney and Cesc Fábregas could miss critical Champions League ties Football

Wayne Rooney in movement for England opposite Egypt in that he aggravated a knee injury. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images

Manchester United and Arsenal might have to fool around their Champions League second-leg matches this week but key players Wayne Rooney and Cesc Fábregas.

Rooney is approaching to lay out United"s home tie opposite Milan with a knee injury, whilst the Arsenal captain"s pulled injure leg tendon looks expected to leave him on the sidelines for the revisit of Porto. "How big the repairs is we don"t know yet," pronounced Arsenal"s manager, Arsène Wenger, whose side face Porto on Tuesday trailing 2-1. "We have to have a late preference over either he plays."

Rooney longed for United"s 1-0 win over Wolves at Molineux after aggravating a knee complaint during England"s 3-1 midweek feat over Egypt. Sir Alex Ferguson was not happy with his striker for dogmatic himself fit for general avocation and United, who lead Milan 3-2, see set to compensate the cost for the lapse confront with David Beckham and association at Old Trafford on Wednesday. "Wayne is unequivocally doubtful," pronounced the United manager. "The Wembley representation has killed him."

Rooney"s eagerness to fool around for England served to enlarge his station in the eyes of Fabio Capello, who cannot regard him enough.

"Rooney is one of the majority appropriate players I have worked with," pronounced the England manager. "He can score. He gets assists. He helps the team. He runs a lot. He is utterly opposite to the alternative players. He is similar to [Real Madrid striker] Raúl, but he is physically stronger than Raúl and he is faster as well. Rooney is immature and strong. He is already at the tip turn and he can get better."

Capello is assured the 24-year-old can hoop being a noted man at the World Cup but losing that critical temper. "I don"t fright that attention. He knows everything," the physical education instructor said. "He knows what will occur during the World Cup. The referees additionally know. But Wayne is some-more grown up now."

Capello has pronounced he will exhibit to England"s players at a patrol assembly who will be forsaken from his World Cup plans. The physical education instructor will call his subject to 30-man patrol together following the accessible opposite Japan in Austria on thirty May, majority expected in the hours prior to they fly behind to England that night. Seven players will be told they are not entrance to South Africa.

"We will verbalise together," Capello said. "I will contend "Thank you unequivocally most but ... It will not be the majority appropriate impulse for me. All the players that have been with me are unequivocally great players. There will be one assembly and thereafter afterwards I will verbalise with the [individual] players. I think it will be critical for all the players to know the decision. One meeting."

Before the 2006 World Cup Sven-Goran Eriksson voiced his patrol publicly prior to informing the players.