Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is determined to shake off his injury woes.

He will miss Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania after picking up a hamstring injury.

But 'the Ox' insists he is doing all he can to stay positive after the worst injury of his career.

"I am all right, battling on," he said.

"Injuries and niggles are all part of the game. When you come back from a long-term injury like my knee, it is hard and almost surprising if you don't experience some sort of knock-on effects from it.

"I have experienced that maybe more so because this season I have played more games and it can be difficult to stay on top of the niggles and manage them.

"Saying that, we have done well with the Arsenal and England physios to keep me on the pitch as long as they did.

"All the injuries I had picked up throughout my career had been contact injuries - the odd kick or roll of the ankle - until this knee injury.

"You do have to sometimes step back and realise that for the whole of my life I had never been out for that much of my career from the age of seven up to the age of 20. I had never been out of football for five months in my whole life."