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The Chelsea skipper, who had recovered from the knee problem that kept him out of Saturday's victory against Estonia, suffered a locked knee training in Moscow on Tuesday.

Head coach Steve McClaren said: "John Terry is almost certainly ruled out of Wednesday's match. His knee locked towards the end of training and he could not complete the session."

He added: "His knee locked towards the end of training and he could not complete the session."

While the decision to replace Terry with Sol Campbell, the skipper's deputy during Saturday's 3-0 win over Estonia at Wembley is easy enough, the damage to morale by the unwanted development could run far deeper.

McClaren had expected to be without Terry from the moment he initially injured his knee on Wednesday, feeling 24 hours later the Chelsea man "had no chance".

However, the problem eased sufficiently over the weekend for Terry to convince McClaren he could make the trip and the England coach confirmed in his pre-injury briefing the 27-year-old would play provided he suffered no further reaction.

The note of caution has proved painfully prophetic, leaving Terry to contemplate the possibility of an operation in what has been a bad week for Chelsea on the England front given Ashley Cole will miss Wednesday's encounter after being stretchered off against Estonia with a nasty-looking ankle injury.