Kelly set to return for England against Italy
Kelly set to return for England against Italy
Chloe Kelly is set to return for England's friendly against Italy on Tuesday following an assessment on a minor injury.
Manchester City winger Kelly missed Friday's 7-2 win over Austria but returned to training on Sunday.
England are in Spain for a warm-weather training camp alongside the under-23s.
Sarina Wiegman said of Kelly: "She is good. She was flying in training so hopefully that's what she will do today and she will be ready for tomorrow."
The Lionesses will be without Chelsea attacking midfielder Fran Kirby who withdrew from the squad because of a "minor knee injury" suffered in the warm-up against Austria.
"She's well but she went home, went back to Chelsea," said manager Wiegman.
"She has some irritation on her knee. It's a minor injury but we didn't want to take any risks so she's being assessed at club and we don't expect it to be a bad injury."
Kirby has started just seven games for Chelsea this season after missing most of last year with a knee injury, but Wiegman is not concerned by a lack of game time.
"I don't think at Chelsea it's always been the reason she's been injured or not available, that she didn't start. It's also tactical decisions," said Wiegman.
"She was available for us and would start and she wasn't able to, which is a disappointment. Moving forward, I hope she will be on the pitch quickly and I'm positive about that."
Several England Under-23 players have trained with Wiegman's squad this week as the Football Association looks to strengthen connections between the senior team and the youth age groups.
Among those involved were Bristol City defender Naomi Layzell, Chelsea forward Aggie Beever-Jones and Manchester City midfielder Laura Blindkilde Brown.
"It's a really great opportunity to come together. We are in the same hotel and we have a very good relationship with the under-23s. We follow them very closely," said Wiegman.
"Yesterday was another opportunity to give them the experience to play and train with the seniors. It was for us an opportunity to see where they are at. It was good, they enjoyed it."
England and Barcelona midfielder Keira Walsh added: "It's really nice for them to be in and around us. We had four of them training with us yesterday and they had a really great session.
"For us to be working closely with them to share the same ideas of football is great. That's the idea - that they will come in and take our shirts off us."
We want to find balance' on crowd size
England's thumping win over Austria was played in front of a small crowd at the Estadio Nuevo Mirador - a 7,200-capacity stadium in Algeciras.
It was on neutral ground for both countries and Wiegman accepted a compromise on crowd size in order to benefit from the warm weather at the training camp.
In their Women's Nations League games in December, England beat Scotland in front of 15,320 at Hampden Park, following a crowd of 71,632 at Wembley against the Netherlands.
"What we want to do is find balance," said Wiegman.
"We want good friendlies in good circumstances - so we have very good pitches here, the weather is always nice so we can stand still a little bit and have good training sessions.
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"We did know there were probably going to be less fans than we would have hoped. There were fans here on Friday and they enjoyed it. I hope the fans at home watching it enjoyed it too.
"We will be back home in April, June and July and the rest of the season we will play a lot in England so I hope that connects with the fans enough.
