Millie Bright: England captain 'really confident' of World Cup fitness

All 25 members of the England squad and standbys trained connected Tuesday, including Millie Bright

England skipper Millie Bright volition miss her team's last World Cup warm-up affable against Portugal, but is "really confident" of being disposable for the opening crippled of the tournament.

But the centre-back trained with her team-mates connected Tuesday and feels fit.

"I consciousness mentally and physically caller arsenic I person ever felt," she said.

Bright suffered her genu wounded successful Chelsea's Champions League quarter-final archetypal limb against Lyon and has been successful a contention to get acceptable ever since.

She is particularly cardinal for England fixed that regular skipper - and Bright's planetary cardinal antiaircraft spouse - Leah Williamson volition miss the World Cup due to the fact that of an anterior cruciate genu ligament injury.

"It's truly good," Bright said of her recovery. "I deliberation it's hard for everyone connected the extracurricular due to the fact that contiguous was the archetypal clip you've seen maine retired connected the transportation but I've really been retired determination since the archetypal camp.

"I've conscionable been grooming individually, ticking the boxes to hole maine for erstwhile I tin instrumentality to the team.

"I deliberation we are a small spot ahead. But there's a large chunk of clip earlier the archetypal crippled [of the World Cup] truthful we are truly assured and everything is going precisely the mode we privation it to go."

England look Portugal astatine Stadium MK connected 1 July, but determination volition beryllium nary minutes successful that lucifer for Bright, who was connected an idiosyncratic grooming program astatine Tuesday's grooming league on with Laura Coombs, Lucy Staniforth and Jordan Nobbs.

"I deliberation Saturday volition beryllium a small spot excessively soon," Bright said. "I'm not backmost with the girls and I don't privation to unreserved that.

"Obviously, we person a batch of clip until the archetypal game. I'm gutted not to marque that 1 [against Portugal] but astatine the aforesaid time, I'm precisely wherever I privation to be."

The 29-year-old has been capable to instrumentality 1 affirmative from her absence, with the wounded allowing her a interruption from a hectic docket of fixtures.

Bright played each infinitesimal of England's Euro 2022 triumph earlier being portion of the Chelsea broadside which won the Women's Super League (WSL) and Women's FA Cup, arsenic good arsenic reaching the League Cup last and the Champions League semi-finals.

"The magnitude of minutes I've played has been ridiculous," she said.

"I can't retrieve the past clip I had much than a mates of weeks off, it's been a just fewer years - it's a blessing successful disguise, that I've been capable to mentally and physically let my assemblage to recover."

England suffered a further wounded scare connected Tuesday erstwhile different defender, Alex Greenwood, limped disconnected the transportation aboriginal pursuing a pugnacious situation successful a grooming match.

The Manchester City subordinate needed crystal to her leg, but did not endure superior wounded and says she is good for Saturday.

"I'll beryllium OK," she said. "It was connected the shin. It's sore, but it's football. It was a tackle, portion of the game."

Following the affable against Portugal, England volition lone play a affable down closed doors earlier their World Cup opener against Haiti.

Denmark and China besides articulation the Lionesses successful Group D.

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