Injured star close to Gunners return

Arsenal have revealed that Eduardo da Silva could be back in the Gunners first-team squad within a month.

The Croatian international has been missing since February when he suffered a horrific broken leg in a league clash at Birmingham, which also forced him to miss Euro 2008.

But Eduardo is now closing in on a return to action, with the striker tipped to return to full training in the next two to three weeks to work on his match fitness.

Arsene Wenger revealed: "Eduardo is close to coming back into full training so he should start to play in two to three weeks maybe."

The player's return will be a massive boost to the manager, who will then have different options to the regular attacking threats of Emmanuel Adebayor, Robin van Persie and Nicklas Bendtner.