Chelsea's Fernando Torres is to have a scan on the knee he injured in the win at Steaua Bucharest on Tuesday.
Blues boss Jose Mourinho said Torres would not be fit to join the Spain squad after the weekend but hopes the problem is not serious.
"The doctor is very confident it's not a big injury like we had with Marco van Ginkel [out for six months]," he said.
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The problem is if it's more time and it's a pity for the guy, because he's in a very good moment.
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Jose Mourinho
Chelsea boss
Torres, 29, is already out of Sunday's match at Norwich through suspension following his sending off at Tottenham.
The Football Association confirmed on Tuesday that Torres would face no extra punishment after his tussle with Spurs defender Jan Vertonghen at White Hart Lane.
"He knows that he doesn't play against Norwich. He knows that he cannot go to the national team," Mourinho said.
"He knows he has 15 days until the next match he can play, which is against Cardiff. Let's see the scan.
"If the injury is an injury for 15 days, I think he'll be fine. That's OK.
"The problem is if it's more time and it's a pity for the guy, because he's in a very good moment."
Torres scored 65 goals in 102 Premier League appearances for Liverpool but struggled after joining Chelsea for a British record fee of £50m in January 2011, scoring six league goals in the remainder of the 2011-12 season.
The Spaniard netted 23 times in all competitions last term and although he has yet to score in the current Premier League campaign, his only two goals to date having come in the Uefa Super League and Capital One Cup, former Liverpool and England midfielder Jamie Redknapp believes the striker demonstrated at the weekend that he could yet recapture his Anfield form.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Redknapp described Torres's performance against Spurs as "a show of quality centre-forward play".
"Torres has shown what he still has. He was a great striker; maybe he still can be."
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
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