Muscle Building Blog

Andrey Arshavin hopes he will return for Arsenal against Manchester City on Saturday having missed four games with a calf muscle injury. The Russian forward was injured in Arsenal's Champions League quarterfinal first leg draw with Barcelona on March 31. Without him, the team has lost its last three games in a row, being knocked out of the Champions League by Barcelona and slipping to six...

Barcelona forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss Tuesday's Champions League quarterfinal against Arsenal with a leg injury and is in doubt for next weekend's Spanish league showdown with Real Madrid. He felt discomfort in his right calf during the warmup for Saturday's 4-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao, and it was later revealed to be a slight bmuscle/b tear.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger predicted Friday that defender William Gallas would be sidelined for the rest of the Premier League season with a calf bmuscle/b injury which also puts his appearance at the World Cup with France in doubt. The defender was carried off the field in Wednesday's 2-2 draw with Barcelona in the Champions League having only just returned from a layoff caused by the same...

Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder is set to miss Inter’s next two Serie A matches. The Dutch playmaker picked up a hamstring injury in the match against Catania (2-1 win).Sneijder, who had a decisive role in the win against Cataina by scoring the second goal, will miss this week’s competition matches against Palermo (Thursday) and Livorno (Sunday).It’s doubtful that the 25-year-old will return for the Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev, next Tuesday. “Sneijder’s injury is a strain.

French first division front-runners Bordeaux and Lyon were both left to count the cost of victory in the Champions League ahead of this weekend’s matches in Ligue 1.League leaders and reigning champions Bordeaux lost talismanic playmaker Yoann Gourcuff to a thigh problem during their hard-earned 1-0 victory over Maccabi Haifa, while Lyon’s injury-plagued squad was further stretched during their 4-0 victory at Hungarian champions Debrecen.Gourcuff overcame a different thigh injury to feature in B