Newcastle United defender Tino Livramento is a doubt for England’s World Cup campaign after suffering a muscular injury. <\/p>\n
The full-back is understood to have been injured during training on Sunday and is being assessed by medical staff.<\/p>\n
England begin their World Cup bid against Croatia on Wednesday night (21:00 BST). <\/p>\n
The 23-year-old’s involvement in the tournament had already been in doubt after he missed the final five weeks of the season with a thigh injury. <\/p>\n
Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah, who is on England’s stand-by list, is a possible replacement for Livramento should the Newcastle defender be ruled out.<\/p>\n
Outfield players who sustain a serious injury or illness can be replaced in a World Cup squad up to 24 hours before the team’s first match of the tournament gets under way.<\/p>\n
Livramento, who was handed his international debut under Gareth Southgate in November 2024, has featured five times during Tuchel’s reign, starting twice.<\/p>\n
He came on at half-time during England’s 1-0 warm-up win over New Zealand but was left on the bench against Costa Rica.<\/p>\n
Reece James is Tuchel’s first choice at right-back but there are also question marks about his fitness, following another injury-plagued campaign. <\/p>\n
The 26-year-old missed nine games for Chelsea at the end of the season because of a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
Other options who are already in the England squad include Djed Spence and Ezri Konsa. <\/p>\n
Spence, who can play on both flanks, has featured six times under Tuchel while Konsa, predominantly a centre-back, has played 11 times, including nine starts.<\/p>\n
Chalobah has not featured for England since June 2025 when he played the full 90 minutes in a friendly against Senegal, but was on the bench for multiple World Cup qualifiers under Tuchel. <\/p>\n
Like Konsa, the 26-year-old’s preferred position is centre-back.<\/p>\n
More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United defender Tino Livramento is a doubt for England’s World Cup campaign after suffering a muscular injury.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-502489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}