{"id":471016,"date":"2026-06-01T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/471016\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:59:10","slug":"captain-williamson-ruled-out-of-england-qualifiers-v-spain-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/471016\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Williamson ruled out of England qualifiers v Spain and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">LONDON, June 1 &#8211; Lionesses captain Leah Williamson will miss England&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers against Spain and Ukraine due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Arsenal defender was named in Sarina Wiegman&#8217;s 25-strong squad for the away game against Spain on Friday and the June 9 home match against Ukraine in Liverpool but was ruled out on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Liverpool&#8217;s Grace Fisk will replace Williamson with Brighton &amp; Hove Albion goalkeeper Sophie Baggaley also called up as a replacement for Khiara Keating, who will miss the Spain game in Mallorca due to having to follow concussion protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">England beat world champions Spain 1-0 at Wembley in April and are three points clear at the top of their four-team group A3 after four matches. Another win against Spain would secure qualification for next year&#8217;s tournament in Brazil. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, June 1 &#8211; Lionesses captain Leah Williamson will miss England&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers against Spain and Ukraine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-471016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}