Gareth Southgate admitted he has spoken to Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp about Joe Gomez's injury and has blamed the blow on the fixture congestion facing Premier League players.
Gomez has been ruled out for most of this season and is a doubt for next summer's European Championships after suffering a serious knee injury in England training this week.
Southgate maintains that Gomez, who has played six games in the last 19 days, would have suffered that injury even if he was not on England duty and that both him and Klopp are worried about the workload on top-flight players.