Steven Gerrard is likely to miss England's friendly against Spain with a hamstring injury.
The midfielder limped off in the first half of Liverpool's 1-0 extra-time defeat at Everton in an fourth round fourth round replay.
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez claims tiredness was to blame and he will send his captain for a scan.
He said: "Steven was tired, and he gets injured. He was tired, too, at Wigan but when I took him off there everyone was saying he had to play every single minute of every match. Now you have seen the consequences.
"He asked to be taken off, you could see at Wigan he was struggling and the same thing happened here."
Gerrard will miss the Premier League game against Portsmouth on Saturday but Fabio Capello could still name in his squad for the trip to Spain.
That might anger Benitez because Liverpool decided Gerrard was not fit enough to play for England in a friendly against Germany in November but he was summoned to London so he could be assessed by Fabio Capello's medical staff.
Benitez said: "Maybe he will have go down to London again like last time for a scan to prove he is injured."
The midfielder limped off in the first half of Liverpool's 1-0 extra-time defeat at Everton in an fourth round fourth round replay.
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez claims tiredness was to blame and he will send his captain for a scan.
He said: "Steven was tired, and he gets injured. He was tired, too, at Wigan but when I took him off there everyone was saying he had to play every single minute of every match. Now you have seen the consequences.
"He asked to be taken off, you could see at Wigan he was struggling and the same thing happened here."
Gerrard will miss the Premier League game against Portsmouth on Saturday but Fabio Capello could still name in his squad for the trip to Spain.
That might anger Benitez because Liverpool decided Gerrard was not fit enough to play for England in a friendly against Germany in November but he was summoned to London so he could be assessed by Fabio Capello's medical staff.
Benitez said: "Maybe he will have go down to London again like last time for a scan to prove he is injured."
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