{"id":191443,"date":"2024-06-20T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/20\/left-backs-fitness-confirmed-for-england-denmark\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:13:44","slug":"left-backs-fitness-confirmed-for-england-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/20\/left-backs-fitness-confirmed-for-england-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-back\u2019s fitness confirmed for England-Denmark \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gareth Southgate has confirmed that Luke Shaw will not play for England against Denmark on Thursday evening following injury concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Manchester United defender observed England\u2019s 1-0 win over Serbia from the bench as the Three Lions kicked off their\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0campaign on Sunday. Newcastle United star Kieran Trippier stepped in at left-back in place of Shaw, creating a backline of Marc Guehi, John Stones and Kyle Walker.<\/p>\n<p>England\u00a0boss Southgate once believed that Shaw would be fit in time to face Denmark in England\u2019s second game of the group stage, however he has since confirmed that the player will not feature in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the decisions we have to make, not just tomorrow but whenever we play,\u201d Southgate told reporters. \u201cWe have to decide what the right physical level for group is and what it is for individual players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, players will benefit from having the game. We have to balance to stick with what we did or to change and refresh the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuke won\u2019t be involved. He\u2019s actually on track for where we thought he would be originally. We were hoping a couple of days ago he might accelerate that bit but he needs a bit more volume work.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01j0tdzakc6yfjfgwk6q.jpg\" alt=\"Gareth Southgate\" title=\"Gareth Southgate\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Southgate will soon select his squad to face Denmark \/ Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t train with group [on Wednesday] because there are days when he needs to do more than the rest of the group and days when he needs to recover when the others are pushing. He is still in and out from the others but operating on his own programme as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw hasn\u2019t been available for selection since February since picking up a muscle injury in United\u2019s win over Luton Town in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Red Devils boss\u00a0Erik ten Hag warned fans ahead of time that Shaw may not be available\u00a0for any group stage games, instead saying that he will play in the round of 16 for England.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0Shaw\u00a0still absent from the squad, Southgate is likely to turn to Trippier to cover the left side of defence once again. The Magpies defender is usually stationed on the right, but has previously confirmed his willingness to cover either side.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-900-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-879636\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate has confirmed that Luke Shaw will not play for England against Denmark on Thursday evening following injury concerns. The Manchester United defender observed England\u2019s 1-0 win over Serbia from the bench as the Three Lions kicked off their\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0campaign on Sunday. Newcastle United star Kieran Trippier stepped in at left-back in place of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Left-back\u2019s fitness confirmed for England-Denmark \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/20\/left-backs-fitness-confirmed-for-england-denmark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Left-back\u2019s fitness confirmed for England-Denmark \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gareth Southgate has confirmed that Luke Shaw will not play for England against Denmark on Thursday evening following injury concerns. 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