A blow for Thomas Tuchel as England star ruled out on Tuesday morning for Czech Republic match

Thomas Tuchel has seen one of his England stars ruled out of tonight’s match due to injury.

The news breaking on Tuesday morning ahead of the away game against the Czech Republic in Prague.

Sky Sports stating that the news from the England camp this morning is that Nico O’Reilly won’t be in the matchday squad for this second Nations League group match.

Ezri Konsa and Nico O’Reilly were unable to join in with group training on Monday and instead followed individual personal programmes away from the other players.

The England defence was a comedy of errors on Saturday night and Nico O’Reilly amongst those guilty of huge mistakes at the back, especially when he gifted Spain the chance to pull it back to 2-2 . This after England had fought so hard to come back from conceding an early goal to lead 2-1.

This morning’s news surely all but confirms that Lewis Hall will start at the Fortuna Arena tonight at left-back.

The Newcastle United star was an unused sub against Spain and Thomas Tuchel explained after that game why he hadn’t been involved: “Lewis Hall missed some training sessions with a bit of an injury scare, so that is why I was a bit hesitant to put him out there today, but he is an option. He trained well at the end of the week but he was out of training at the beginning of the week, so we just didn’t want to take any risk because there was a lot of high speed running and defending to do.”

For Thomas Tuchel and his players it is now Czech Republic v England tonight with a 7.45pm kick-off. Followed by Croatia v England at 5pm on Saturday 3 October. Finally, it is England v Czech Republic at 7.45pm on Tuesday 6 October.

Tuchel Tuchel added after the defeat to Spain: “Lewis Hall is always in our discussions at the left-back position, he is the one who actually plays left-back for his club, Myles [Lewis-Skelly] and Nico [O’Reilly] play many times in central midfield.”

The other option at left-back is Myles Lewis-Skelly and he played the opening 70 minutes for England against Spain, but in midfield, where he now plays for Arsenal.

The other thing of course is that Lewis Hall also happens to be the best English left-back of all, so starting him tonight looks a no-brainer.

Thomas Tuchel named his England squad eight days ago but then lost five of the players – Tino Livramento, Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer, Marcus Rashford and Declan Rice.

At the same time as naming five withdrawing, The FA named two that had been added, James Garner and Morgan Gibbs-White.

Instead of having three international breaks each for a fortnight in September, October and November, the football authorities have combined the September and October 2026 ones in just one that lasts three weeks. The November 2026 break remains the same, lasting two weeks.

The England squad (see below) after the five dropped out and the two came in:

Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Jason Steele (Brighton & Hove Albion), James Trafford (Leeds United)

Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Real Madrid), Jarrad Branthwaite (Everton), Trevoh Chalobah (Como), Marc Guéhi (Manchester City), Lewis Hall (Newcastle United), Ezri Konsa (Arsenal) Nico O’Reilly (Manchester City), Jarrell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen)

Midfielders: Elliot Anderson (Manchester City), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal), Alex Scott (AFC Bournemouth)

Forwards: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Leeds United), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal), Anthony Gordon (Barcelona), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Rio Ngumoha (Liverpool), Morgan Rogers (Chelsea), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)