• “Harry Kane won’t be fit for Tuesday so he will go back to his club,” confirmed boss Gareth Southgate after the loss.
• The Three Lions are waiting for an injury update on right-back Kyle Walker, who came off in the first half.
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England captain Harry Kane will miss Tuesday’s friendly against Belgium with an ankle injury and has returned to his club side Bayern Munich.
The 30-year-old, who is England’s all-time top goalscorer, missed Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by Brazil at Wembley.
“Harry Kane won’t be fit for Tuesday so he will go back to his club,” confirmed boss Gareth Southgate after the loss.
The Three Lions are waiting for an injury update on right-back Kyle Walker, who came off in the first half.
“We don’t know,” said Southgate. “He hasn’t had many injuries and he isn’t sure if it is just tightness or if it’s a little bit more than that.
“We’ll know in the next 24, 36 hours.”
The Manchester City defender was replaced by Aston Villa’s Ezri Konsa after 20 minutes, soon after clearing a Vinicius Jr shot off the line.
On the two midfielders who missed the Brazil game through injury, Southgate added: “Cole Palmer and Jordan Henderson trained this morning, but we have to see how they come through that next phase.”
Meanwhile, ex-England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson said it was “absolutely beautiful” to fulfil his dream of managing Liverpool.
The 76-year-old helped lead a Liverpool Legends team which beat an Ajax Legends side 4-2 at Anfield on Saturday.
Swede Eriksson, who is a lifelong Liverpool fan, disclosed his terminal cancer diagnosis in January.
“That will be a huge memory in life,” said Eriksson, who received a standing ovation when he emerged from the tunnel just before the teams. “Absolutely beautiful.”
There was a rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone before kick-off and Eriksson was in the Reds dugout along with a management team of former Liverpool greats Ian Rush, John Barnes and John Aldridge.
A Liverpool team including former captain Steven Gerrard came back from 2-0 to win, with Gregory Vignal, Nabil El Zhar, Djibril Cisse and Fernando Torres scoring.
Eriksson and the players were also applauded when they walked around the pitch following the final whistle.
“To sit on the bench for Liverpool, that’s been my dream my whole life. Now it happened, and it was a beautiful day in all meanings,” added the Swede.
“The crowd, the game, the players, everything, fantastic, and thank you to Liverpool for giving me this opportunity, to invite me for such an important game - it’s not points, but the importance of the game is incredible.
“It was full of emotions, tears coming. It’s been my dream club all my life — even when I had England, I also supported Liverpool, but I couldn’t say it at that time.
“It’s a good finish, to finish with Liverpool, it can’t be much better than that.”