England have suffered a big shock misspen forward in their Euro 2025 qualifying double header in opposition to France, with Chelsea ahead Lauren James dominated out.
Sarina Wiegman’s facet start a hectic summer time of qualifier at St James’ Soil on Friday night time however must cope with out James on account of a base shock. The 22-year-old has transform a very important participant for England over the endmost 365 days following a breakout event on the International Cup endmost summer time.
Tottenham Hotspur winger Jessica Naz, who was once coaching with the Lionesses squad as a standby participant, has been promoted into the primary squad instead. James will go back to Chelsea to bring to proceed remedy at the disease sustained on the finish of the WSL season.
It’s the actual shock misspen upcoming defenders Niamh Charles and Lotte Wubben-Moy had already withdrawn from the squad. Manchester United’s Maya Le Tissier has been referred to as up of their park.Â
James’ shock may provide a possibility for gametime to Chelsea teammate Aggie Beever-Jones, who was once referred to as up for the primary date forward of this summer time’s 4 qualifying video games
The opposite fixture in opposition to France will pull park on Tuesday night time in Saint-Etienne. Later, England will face Sweden and the Republic of Eire on 12 and 16 July in Norwich and Gothenburg respectively.
Wiegman’s facet are lately 2d within the crew, handiest in the back of leaders France. Victory on Friday night time would see them leapfrog their combatants and declare lead spot with 3 video games to proceed.
Underneath the pristine Euro qualifying layout, which is indistinguishable to that of the International locations League, England will wish to end first or 2d of their crew to conserve their park at after summer time’s event in Switzerland. 3rd or fourth would ruthless two rounds of play-offs to bring to qualify.
