By JAMES ROB­SON

AP Soc­cer Writer

DO­HA, Qatar (AP) — Eng­land for­ward Ra­heem Ster­ling has left the team's World Cup camp in Qatar and re­turned to Britain af­ter a break-in at his home.

The 27-year-old Chelsea play­er missed Eng­land’s 3-0 vic­to­ry over Sene­gal in the round of 16 on Sun­day and it was not known if he would be back for the quar­ter­fi­nal match against France on Sat­ur­day.

“We’ve got to give him time to try to re­solve that or be there for his fam­i­ly,” Eng­land coach Gareth South­gate said. “That’s the most im­por­tant thing at this time, so we’re go­ing to give him that space."

Eng­land an­nounced 90 min­utes be­fore kick off against Sene­gal at Al Bayt Sta­di­um that Ster­ling would be un­avail­able be­cause of a “fam­i­ly mat­ter."

Po­lice in the Eng­lish coun­ty of Sur­rey out­side Lon­don said in a state­ment they were in­ves­ti­gat­ing "a bur­glary at an ad­dress in Oxshott, Leather­head.” The state­ment said po­lice were con­tact­ed Sat­ur­day night “af­ter the oc­cu­pants of the prop­er­ty came home and dis­cov­ered a num­ber of items in­clud­ing jew­ellery and watch­es had been stolen.”

“No threat of vi­o­lence was in­volved as the items were dis­cov­ered stolen ret­ro­spec­tive­ly. In­quiries in­to the cir­cum­stances are on­go­ing,” po­lice said.

The po­lice lat­er is­sued an up­date to say they were still in­ves­ti­gat­ing when the theft hap­pened, and re­spond­ed to re­ports that the thieves were armed.

“We are aware of me­dia re­ports stat­ing there were armed sus­pects in­volved, how­ev­er, at this time, we would re­as­sure our com­mu­ni­ties that no wit­ness­es have come for­ward to this ef­fect and there are no re­ports of any threats of vi­o­lence linked to this in­ci­dent,” the state­ment said.

Ster­ling had not been ex­pect­ed to start against Sene­gal, with Phil Fo­den se­lect­ed ahead of him.

“Our thoughts are with him and his fam­i­ly,” Eng­land cap­tain Har­ry Kane said. “It is a pri­vate mat­ter with him, but it’s nev­er easy to see one of your team­mates and friends have to deal with some­thing like that."