Some key players will be missing the World Cup 2010 qualifying matches with their countries !

England, France, Spain and Germany are all facing some injuries in their squads for the upcoming World Cup 2010 qualifiers.

England's Ledley King is going to miss both England's matches (a friendly against Slovakia and a World Cup 2010 qualifier against Ukraine) because of a chronic knee injury.

France's Anelka will be away for 3 weeks because of a toe injury. He will be replaced by Paris St Germain's Guillaume Hoarau where Raymond Domenech called has him for the first time.

Spain's Andres Iniesta will be replaced by Valencia's Juan Mata because of injury.

Germany's Torsten Frings and Arne Friedrich will be missing because of injury alongside with Miroslav Klose.