Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will miss up to seven weeks of Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge as a result of the “quite serious” knee injury.

Arsene Wenger suggested that the injury did not appear severe enough to rule the midfielder out of this summer’s European Championship but admitted that club and country were waiting anxiously on the results of a scan. 

Oxlade-Chamberlain sustained the injury in a tackle by Javier Mascherano.

“It is a new injury,” said Wenger. “When he has been cut in two by Mascherano he did his knee. We have to see how big the damage is. I don’t think it was a malicious tackle, it was a fully committed tackle. Let’s hope we get good news that [Oxlade-Chamberlain’s absence] is only two to three weeks and not six to seven.”