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Walker and Maguire withdraw from England squad with accidents

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Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire have withdrawn from the England camp with accidents, the English Soccer Affiliation (FA) introduced on Sunday.

The duo, together with goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, will return to their respective golf equipment for additional evaluation on accidents they picked up in current days as per the FA.

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Walker, who was named England captain for the conflict towards Brazil on Saturday, was substituted within the twentieth minute after showing to injure his hamstring when monitoring again to avoid wasting a goal-bound shot off the road from Vinícius Júnior early within the sport.

“We do not know [how serious it is],” England supervisor Gareth Southgate informed reporters after the sport, which Brazil gained 1-0. “He isn’t had many accidents so he is undecided if it is simply tightness or one thing extra critical. We’ll know extra over the subsequent few days.”

Maguire lasted until 67 minutes at Wembley on Saturday, earlier than being changed by Lewis Dunk.

The newest spate of withdrawals serve a recent blow to Southgate, who has already seen Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka pull out of the England squad in current days.

Kane, who was within the stands for England’s loss to Brazil on Saturday, had linked up with the squad forward of the sport regardless of selecting up an ankle harm in Bayern Munich‘s win over Darmstardt earlier than the worldwide break.

Talking after the sport on Saturday, Southgate confirmed that the ahead can be returning to his membership to get well from his harm and won’t be concerned in England’s pleasant towards Belgium on Tuesday.

Saka, who like Kane had joined the England setup forward of this batch of friendlies, left the camp at St.George’s Park final week after the FA introduced he had arrived with an harm and had been unable to take part in coaching periods.

Manchester Metropolis defender Rico Lewis, who made his debut towards North Macedonia in November, and uncapped Burnley goalkeeper James Trafford have been moved up from the under-21 workforce to the senior squad.