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Scott Carson is the latest player to pull out of the England squad for the Euro 2012 qualifiers with Bulgaria at Wembley on Friday and in Switzerland on Tuesday. The West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper has been released from the squad to attend to a family bereavement. Watford and England Under-21 keeper Scott Loach has been called up in place of Carson, though this only demonstrates the lack of goalkeeping options England has.
Phil Jagielka trained with the squad on the Wembley surface on Thursday, the first time since he picked up an ankle injury in Everton’s game with Aston Villa on Sunday, and manager Fabio Capello suggested that the defender could start.
“He is fit, he trained well, there is a little bit of pain but I think for tomorrow he will be 100%.”
Michael Dawson, Joleon Lescott and Gary Cahill are all on stand-by in case Jagielka fails to make the starting eleven.
Capello also suggested that he was close to knowing his starting eleven.
“The keeper, Hart, Rooney, Steve [Gerrard], Barry, [Ashley] Cole, Johnson, Jagielka, more or less. I know 10 or 11, with a little doubt about one,” Capello said on Thursday.
“The training was really good, the players are okay and some problems we had in the last two days are getting better.”
Chelsea’s John Terry and Frank Lampard have been ruled out because of injuries, Terry with a hamstring problem and Lampard missing the match to have a hernia operation.
Meanwhile Capello has suggested that this isn’t the worst crisis of his management career.
“I hope pressure brings out the best in me. Up to now it usually has,” he said.
“It’s not the worst situation I’ve been in. It’s been the same two or three times, in Madrid, Milan, and now.”
Bulgaria Team news v England
Bulgaria manager Stanimir Stoilov says his players will try to “close” the English as efficiently as possible and will seize every opportunity to score. However, Bolton Wanderers winger Martin Petrov suggests that there isn’t a team spirit within the England camp.
“Everyone knows that England have names and very good players. If you take every player from the team, they are very good players.
“But I don’t think they have a team. I don’t know why. In the middle and up-front, they have big names, they have a big manager too, but they just don’t do it.”
Dimitar Berbatov has retired from international football so Ivelin Popov will most likely start as he tries to show Blackburn Rovers fans what they will be missing after work permit issues caused the failure of his transfer to the Premier League club.
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