The Bayern Munich midfielder has proven himself to be a veryvaluable member of Head Coach Sven-Göran Eriksson's squad.

Hargreaves, who has 21 caps to his name, has played as a substitute in both England's Euro 2004 games so far but has not trained since Thursday's win over Switzerland.

Sven said: "Owen is not very well. I'm almost sure he is not available - he's not eaten for 48 hours."