{"id":3770,"date":"2023-03-21T05:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2023-03-21T05:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:17:46","slug":"euro-2024-qualifiers-marcus-rashford-mason-mount-and-nick-pope-withdraw-from-england-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024 qualifiers: Marcus Rashford, Mason Mount and Nick Pope withdraw from England squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount and Newcastle keeper Nick Pope have withdrawn from the England squad for this month&#8217;s Euro 2024 qualifiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">Rashford picked up a knock during his side&#8217;s FA Cup quarter-final win against Fulham on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Pope, who has 10 caps, suffered an injury in Newcastle&#8217;s 2-1 win at Nottingham Forest on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">Mount is also recovering from an injury and will stay with Chelsea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">England manager Gareth Southgate had included him in the initial 25-man squad but\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/64993094\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$link-2.0\">Chelsea boss Graham Potter said afterwards<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.3\">\u00a0that the 24-year-old would not be joining up with the international team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Mount has not featured for Chelsea since February because of a pubic bone injury and missed Saturday&#8217;s Premier League draw against Everton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Rashford has been in fine form for Manchester United this season, scoring 27 goals in total including 19 since returning from the Qatar World Cup, where he found the net three times in five games for England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Tottenham keeper Fraser Forster, 35, has been called up to replace Pope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".1gevpy4w2u2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">Forster won the last of his six England caps in 2016 though he was included in the squad for two friendly games last season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount and Newcastle keeper Nick Pope have withdrawn from the England squad for this month&#8217;s Euro 2024 qualifiers. Rashford picked up a knock during his side&#8217;s FA Cup quarter-final win against Fulham on Sunday. Pope, who has 10 caps, suffered an injury in Newcastle&#8217;s 2-1 win at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}