• Czech Republic captain has achilles tendon injury • Rosicky struggling to be fit for quarter-final with Portugal

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Tomas Rosicky has left the Czech Republic's base in Poland to return to Prague for treatment on an achilles tendon injury that forced the captain to miss his team's 1-0 victory over Poland.

Czech team officials say Rosicky travelled to Prague with the physiotherapist Pavel Kolar and is expected to rejoin the team in Wroclaw on Tuesday, before the European Championship quarter-final against Portugal.

Rosicky picked up the injury during last week's 2-1 win against Greece and has not trained since. He was ruled out hours before Saturday's game against Poland and his place in the midfield went to Daniel Kolar.

The Arsenal player had previously said he has only a small chance of recovering for Thursday.