Premier League injury news from the international break

Some players have been sent home, some are staying with their countries and hoping, and one has been given the all-clear. Here is where things stand for the players we know about, club by club, before the league returns on 21 November.

Sunderland: Brobbey and Xhaka both out Brian Brobbey The Netherlands announced on Monday that Brian Brobbey and Virgil van Dijk were pulling out of their squad. "Virgil van Dijk and Brian Brobbey aren't fit enough to feature in the upcoming Nations League matches.

No replacements will be called up,"the Dutch FA said. On Tuesday, Dutch journalist Mounir Boualin reported that the 24-year-old has a small tear in his upper leg and is expected to be out for a few weeks.

He will miss the games with Greece on 13 November and Germany on 16 November, and he now looks likely to miss some Sunderland matches as well. That is a blow for Regis Le Bris.

Brobbey was outstanding in the1-0 win over Chelsea, and he has already had one spell out this season after a hamstring problem at the end of September kept him out for about a month. Sunderland's next games are away at Aston Villa on 21 November and then Jagiellonia Białystok in the Europa League.

Granit Xhaka Sunderland's captain lasted only four minutes against Chelsea before going off, and Switzerland have since withdrawn him from their squad with a calf injury. He misses the Nations League games against Slovenia and Scotland.

Le Bris said after the game:"It looks like a calf injury, but we do not know exactly the timeframe at the minute. It was just the last sprint of the warm-up, that is often the case.

Xhaka had a scan on Monday, and the results have not been made public. Sunderland are 19th with eight points from ten games, only above Crystal Palace, so losing their captain and their main striker at the same time could hardly come at a worse moment.

Liverpool: Van Dijk rests, Szoboszlai waits Virgil van Dijk Van Dijk played the full 90 minutes of the3-1 win at Crystal Palaceon Sunday, then pulled out of the Netherlands squad a day later. Journalist James Pearce has reported that the Liverpool captain has been playing through a minor problem in recent weeks, though the injury itself has not been named."