Maurizio Sarri has admitted N'Golo Kante is only "50-50" to face Arsenal in the Europa League final on Wednesday.

The midfielder is dealing with a knee injury and the clash in Baku could come too soon for him to feature.

"Kante had a little problem on Saturday, a very little problem within his knee," Sarri told a news conference on Tuesday.

"The problem is the timing because we had only four days. We are trying. It's not really a very serious injury. We have the problem of the three or four days to try and recover him.

"At the moment we don't know. We will try. We will try to the last moment, so we will try tomorrow. But we don't know at the moment."

Asked to assess Kante's chances of playing, Sarri said: "I think it's 50-50 at the moment. Yesterday, 60-40 for 'no'. Today 50-50. He was a little bit better this morning. But 50-50."

The Italian added: "We are in trouble with the midfielders. At the moment we have only three midfielders for three positions, so we are in trouble.

"For us, N'Golo is really very important. He is the only defensive midfielder that we have, so for us he is really very important.

"We are trying to recover him. We will try tomorrow morning. I hope to recover him because I know very well that, without N'Golo, for us it's a problem."