{"id":11182,"date":"2023-11-24T19:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/11182\/millie-bright-pulls-out-of\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:39:51","slug":"millie-bright-pulls-out-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=11182","title":{"rendered":"Millie Bright pulls out of England squad with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Bright pulls out of England squad with knee injury\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Tom Hamilton, lead writer<span class=\"timestamp \">November 24, 2023, 1:00 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Joined ESPN in 2011<br \/>\u2022 Covered two Olympic Games, two <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/rugby\/\"   title=\"Rugby\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Rugby<\/a> World Cups and two British and Irish Lions tours<br \/>\u2022 Former rugby editor, then senior editor in 2018<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>England&#8217;s World Cup captain Millie Bright will miss her two key Nations League matches against the Netherlands and Scotland due to injury, it was confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bright captained the England women&#8217;s team at last summer&#8217;s World Cup, where they lost to Spain in the final.  The defender recovered from a knee injury to captain the Lionesses in the absence of Leah Williamson, but the knee is still proving troublesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Bright sidelined, Manchester United&#8217;s Millie Turner was called up.  Turner has previously played for the England Under-19 and Under-23 teams and will attempt to make his international debut in England&#8217;s final two matches of the year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Bright will miss the matches against the Netherlands and Scotland. <cite>Photo by Michael Regan\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>England must beat the Netherlands and Scotland to have any chance of winning their Nations League group.  England are the nominated Team GB qualifier for the Olympics and must reach the Nations League final to guarantee a place at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Bright missed Chelsea&#8217;s key Champions League group game against Paris FC on Thursday at Stamford Bridge, with Emma Hayes describing Bright&#8217;s injury as &#8220;a bit of an upset&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>England face the Netherlands on December 1 at Wembley, then travel to Scotland on December 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Bright pulls out of England squad with knee injury\u060c Tom Hamilton, lead writerNovember 24, 2023, 1:00 p.m. Close \u2022 Joined ESPN in 2011\u2022 Covered two Olympic Games, two Rugby World Cups and two British and Irish Lions tours\u2022 Former rugby editor, then senior editor in 2018 England&#8217;s World Cup captain Millie Bright will miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[870,666,1014,2413,6383,908,1259],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bright","tag-england","tag-injury","tag-knee","tag-millie","tag-pulls","tag-squad"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11184,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions\/11184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}