Gary Neville is still not allowed to push too much at the trainings, following a recent injury. He will, as a consequence, miss the warm-up game against Jamaica.

“Gary is not training with us or playing tomorrow. Monday he will start again,” England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson told a news conference on Friday.

“But it’s only protective, he has a small problem with one leg but it’s nothing to worry about. He will be fully fit on Monday.”

Neville missed training for a second day on Friday, having come off at halftime in England’s 3-1 friendly win over Hungary on Tuesday at Old Trafford. He was replaced in his position by Jamie Carragher, who is expected to deputise against Jamaica.

Eriksson has no straight replacement in his squad at right back, meaning that Carragher or Owen Hargreaves would have to fill in if the problem continued until their Group B opener against Paraguay on June 10.

Along with Rooney which, as you know, is not yet recovered and nobody knows if he will be fit, Sven-Goran Eriksson has his attention on Michael Owen, who just recovered from a fairly long time of inactivity due to injury.

Owen made his first start of the year in last week’s 2-1 defeat by Belarus in a ‘B’ international and lasted only 65 minutes in Tuesday’s friendly win over Hungary.

“Hopefully he will do 90 minutes or almost 90 minutes this time,” Eriksson said. “It would be very good if he could…but it’s not a guarantee today.”

“I’m not worried about it. He did a very, very good session today, it was very intensive.”

After Paraguay, England go on to play Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden in Group B at the FIFA World Cup in Germany.

Source: WCoffsite