England Lose O'Reilly for Czech Republic Trip as Konsa Faces Fitness Test

England will be without Nico O'Reilly for Tuesday's Nations League trip to the Czech Republic, though Ezri Konsa is expected to be involved despite also missing Monday's training session.

O'Reilly and Konsa were the only two England players not to take part in group training on Monday, both instead following individual programmes. Both had played the full 90 minutes in England's 3-2 defeat to Spain on Saturday, but O'Reilly will now sit out the trip to Prague.

Liverpool winger Rio Ngumoha, who missed out on the matchday squad against Spain, has been called up to replace O'Reilly. His absence could give Newcastle's Lewis Hall a chance to push for a start at left back.

O'Reilly's mistake at Wembley led directly to Alex Baena's equaliser that made it 2-2, before Spain went on to win the match. Konsa, meanwhile, has become an important player under Thomas Tuchel, starting seven of England's eight matches at the World Cup. Should he not be available, Jarrad Branthwaite, who came on for Marc Guehi late against Spain, could be in line to start in his place.

England play four matches during this international window. Having already lost to Spain, they now face the Czech Republic both home and away, either side of a trip to Rijeka to face Croatia.

There had been plenty of debate around England's style and identity heading into the Spain game, with Barcelona's Anthony Gordon suggesting the team should play more traditionally, while Tuchel had spoken about potentially "embracing the chaos." England led 2-1 against Spain before Harry Kane missed a penalty and the world champions came back to win 3-2.

Tuchel felt the performance still reflected what he wants from the team. "I think we showed our style, and showed our courage and identity, they showed it throughout the 90 minutes," he said. "I think we were a valid part of a very good football match overall, over 90 minutes both teams showed our quality. We caused ourselves some problems with individual mistakes. It should not happen, but it happened. But I think we played our way, and we encouraged the players to play their way, and the way they want to play."

Tuchel also spoke about the challenge of this new extended international break format, which sees England play four games in just 11 days. 

"I find this format now even more challenging than any other format, I have to say, a lot of travelling and playing twice within only two days of rest in between and then flying and a change of pitches," he said. "I think the change of training in itself, the change of training style, the change of style of play, sometimes the change of position for a player between national team and club brings its own risks for injury, and I think this format is my feeling at the moment, it increases it more than decreases."