Dan Burn and James Hill have been added to the England squad as replacements for Marc Guehi and Ezri Konsa ahead of Thursday’s match against Croatia.

The Three Lions face Croatia at Wembley Stadium in their penultimate Nations League group game, before completing their group-phase in Madrid against world champions Spain on Sunday.

Manchester City centre-back Guehi was assessed over the weekend after being substituted with a hip injury at half time of their defeat to Nottingham Forest but has now pulled out of the squad.

In his place, Thomas Tuchel called up the 34-year-old Newcastle defender. He had said on Friday that “difficult phone calls” had been had with Burn, Dean Henderson and Chelsea’s Jordan Henderson when leaving them behind. But the former is now in as Guehi’s replacement.

Meanwhile, it was announced on Tuesday morning that Konsa will not be available for the Croatia game, but is expected to return to full training later in the week ahead of the Spain fixture.

As such, Tuchel must decide whether to hand Hill a senior debut or reshuffle his defence with Ben White coming in at right-back, thus allowing Jarell Quansah to partner Burn in the middle.

Captain Harry Kane is expected to start and will overtake Peter Shilton to become England’s all-time most-capped player.

Arsenal duo Bukayo Saka (injury) and Noni Madueke (selection decision) are not in the squad this month but the head coach has explained that he sees his options on the right wing as being Liverpool’s Rio Ngumoha, Chelsea’s Morgan Rogers, Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White and Fulham’s Josh King.

Declan Rice is back in the mix and available after missing the last international break due to load management.

Jobe Bellingham of Borussia Dortmund, brother of Real Madrid’s Jude, is in the squad for the very first time at senior level. He, King and the Brighton veteran goalkeeper Jason Steele are the only uncapped players among Tuchel’s squad.

The German is expected to go strong in both matches after revealing on Friday that it matters to him to push to finish top of their Nations League group despite currently trailing Spain by three points.

Tuchel has a choice to make between Jordan Pickford and James Trafford over to start as his goalkeeper. Both were handed two games each during the last extended international break.

Though he is right-footed, the Inter Milan defender Djed Spence is in the squad as a left-back where he will compete with Newcastle’s Lewis Hall for game time.

Pickford; Quansah, Hill, Burn, Hall; Rice, Anderson; Ngumoha, Ju. Bellingham, Gordon; Kane

Time and date: 7:45pm GMT on Thursday November 12, 2026

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