Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has been withdrawn from Norway’s squad for his or her upcoming worldwide matches after injuring his left knee towards West Ham.

The 26-year-old will miss Norway’s World Cup qualifier towards Israel (11 October) and pleasant towards New Zealand (14 October) having sustained a medial collateral ligament damage.

He’ll stay at Arsenal for evaluation and therapy, with no timeline but for his return to motion.

Declan Rice, nonetheless, who picked up a again damage in the identical match, will report for England responsibility as anticipated.

Odegaard set an undesirable report on Saturday when he grew to become the primary participant in Premier League historical past to be substituted earlier than half-time in three consecutive begins.

He got here off early in victories towards Leeds and Nottingham Forest due to an ongoing shoulder situation.

Towards West Ham, he was withdrawn after half-hour following what supervisor Mikel Arteta described as a “knee-to-knee” collision with opposition ahead Crysencio Summerville.

Talking after the sport, Arteta mentioned: “I simply spoke to him. He isn’t constructive about it. He is obtained a brace on. We’ll have to attend and see from the medical doctors, however we’ve not been very fortunate with that both.

“We’ve not had him for the reason that begin of the season for one motive or the opposite. The shoulder twice after which this damage.

“We’ll have to attend and see the extent of that damage, and we’ll discover options, however clearly he is our captain and is a participant that offers us a very totally different dimension with the issues that he can do, particularly in attacking.”