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Thomas Tuchel reveals why Arsenal's Declan Rice & Bukayo Saka left the England camp before the Japan friendly.
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00:00Obviously, Nani Madweke, we saw him leave in a knee brace, it looked particularly bad for him.
00:04Declan Rice and Saka joined up but went straight off.
00:07They had a medical assessment, wanted desperately to play,
00:11to just get the narrative straight, wanted desperately to be involved,
00:15but it made just no sense to take this risk.
00:18If it would have been maybe a last game of the season,
00:22we would have kept them and tried everything,
00:25but in this moment of the season it did not make sense.
00:29The risk for making it worse was just way too big.
00:34They were both clearly in discomfort when we did the medical assessment,
00:38so it made absolutely no sense that they stayed.
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