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England's nightmare injury run continues with Jarell Quansah limping off during Panama clash

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"The one position I think I am pretty qualified to speak on is right back and if you had said to me a couple of months ago that Quansah would be playing right-back for England in a tournament, I would say something has gone badly wrong," he said.Get the latest World Cup news straight to your inbox by signing up to our Make Football Great Again newsletter now!"He's picked Reece James and Livramento, players who are injury prone. He's not brought Trent Alexander-Arnold, who obvously is someone with world class quality, for what reasons we can only imagine."That is where we are right now, England will win this group and win this game but there is some turbulence in there.""Djed Spence is the only real option at right-back," he continued.



"Quansah is not an option going into the games further into the tournament, so I think the reasons he has probably done it today are he is thinking ‘look, we can handle Panama, Quansah can play there, and Spence can come in for the 32’."Following news of James' injury, Tuchel outlined a number of options but Quansah appeared to have been near the top of his list. “We will find solutions," he said."The thinking of calling Chalobah to free up Quansah on the right full-back position for us.

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