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Harry Kane will miss England\u2019s game against Wales on Thursday but Thomas Tuchel is \u201cconvinced\u201d that he will be able to face Latvia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The England captain has not been able to train this week after arriving with an injury sustained in Bayern Munich\u2019s 3-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt last Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarry will miss the game,\u201d head coach Tuchel said in his pre-match press conference at Wembley on Wednesday night. \u201cHe got a kick in his last match with Bayern Munich. It\u2019s too painful to kick a ball, too risky that he gets another kick and will be in an up-and-down situation pain-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuchel is confident that England\u2019s record goalscorer will be back for the trip to Riga next week, where England can move closer to sealing qualification for next summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gave him the chance that everything calms down,\u201d Tuchel said. \u201cWe are convinced he will be ready for the match against Latvia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuchel revealed that the England captain against Wales will be one of Jordan Henderson, John Stones or Declan Rice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have an attitude towards training, towards what it takes to be a team player, of the highest, highest standards,\u201d Tuchel said of the three players. \u201cIf these guys are in camp, their level is the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n
The head coach emphasised the necessity of such team cohesion ahead of the 2026 World Cup, viewing it as more important to the team\u2019s chances as individual talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will arrive as underdogs at the World Cup because we haven\u2019t won it for decades,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd we will play against teams who have repeatedly won it during that time. So we have to arrive as a team, or we will have no chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t collect the most talented players, we collect the guys who have the glue and cohesion to be the best team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kane was substituted in the 85th minute of Bayern\u2019s win over Frankfurt after receiving medical attention following a collision with opposition goalkeeper Kaua Santos. He was later seen with a bandage around his right foot but played down the severity of the issue at full time<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oct 9, 2025<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n Spot the pattern. Connect the terms<\/p>\n Find the hidden link between sports terms<\/p>\n Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Regan\/Getty Images Harry Kane will miss England\u2019s game against Wales on Thursday but Thomas Tuchel is \u201cconvinced\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4897,9872,9333,403,99],"class_list":["post-210712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bundesliga","tag-england","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n