Mohamed Salah will be fit to feature in the World Cup group stages, according to the Egyptian Football Association.

Salah suffered a shoulder injury in the Champions League Final last Saturday.

A post on the federation’s Facebook page read: “The delegation of the national team was briefed on the recovery programme for the player, who is walking well and aims to join the squad in the World Cup, as well as the determination of the great player to catch up with his team-mates. For his part, Mohamed Abou El-Ela said that the period of absence of Salah due to injury will not exceed three weeks.”

Dani Alves will miss the 2018 World Cup due to a knee injury.

Alves suffered the injury in the French Cup final.

The injury will sideline him for at least three weeks. Brazil’s first game in Russia will be on 17 June against Switzerland. Alves played in the previous two World Cups and has 107 appearances for the team since his 2006 debut.

Laurent Koscielny will be out six months after undergoing surgery to repair his ruptured Achilles tendon.

Koscielny was planning on retiring from international duty with France following the World Cup.

Koscielny had been forced to manage inflammation in the tendon for some time, although Wenger expressed his surprise that the discomfort had turned into the worst-case injury.

“Koscielny is devastated because he has had surgery,” Arsene Wenger said. “That means he will be out for six months. You will not see him before the end of December, or maybe the beginning of December at best. It’s certainly the final year he would play for the national team, but you never know. He now misses the World Cup, as well."

Koscielny is under contract with Arsenal until 2020.

Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to play in the Champions League Final despite picking up a sprained ankle in Sunday's Clasico.

Ronaldo sprained his ankle 15 minutes into the 2-2 draw. Ronaldo stayed in the match until halftime when he was replaced by Marco Asensio. 

Both Marca and AS reported that Ronaldo will not play in Madrid's game at Sevilla on Wednesday or against Celta Vigo on Saturday as he prepares to be fully fit to face Liverpool on May 26 in Kiev, Ukraine.