England coach Roy Hodgson has fired back at Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers over Daniel Sturridge's injury management.
Sturridge has not played since picking up the injury after England's 1-0 win over Norway.
Rodgers claims the Liverpool forward is instructed not to train for 48 hours after a match, but Hodgson offered a very different version of events on Thursday.
"The interesting thing for the session where Daniel got injured is that he was quite keen to take part in that training session because he was such an important part of it and we were trying to develop a new system of play.
"He was the forward who understood it best. He was more than happy to come in and help us to get our points over to the others.
"It's doubly unfortunate that he got injured. But injuries do happen. No manager has as yet said to me that players must not train two days after a game.
"But I understand that Daniel is an important player and I understand Brendan being unhappy that he is injured.
"You have to be careful saying injuries are preventable. We could have done a completely different training session or Daniel could have done a recovery session which Brendan might have thought was more suitable but I still couldn't guarantee there wouldn't have been an injury."
