Malik Ouzia: John Stones sits out England training
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00:00Well, I'm here at England's base camp in Germany where they're training for the first time this morning.
00:0425 players out on the pitch behind me. The one missing is John Stones.
00:08He's got an illness and that is a bit of a problem for Gareth Sarkar.
00:10There's no suggestion at the moment that it's going to rule him out of the game against Serbia on Sunday.
00:15But he is trying to drill a new look defence at the moment.
00:18Obviously, no Harry Maguire in this tournament.
00:20He hasn't recovered in time to make the squad.
00:23And we know that Luke Shaw isn't going to be fit for that first game either.
00:26It's going to be one of Mark Gaye and Ezri Conta.
00:28We think that sector partner John Stones, who also only played 45 minutes across England's two warm-up games last week.
00:35But the good news, as I say, is that everyone else is out there training today, including Luke Shaw.
00:39His progress has been good.
00:41And England are hopeful that he's going to be able to play some part in the second game against Denmark.
00:45So we'll be here throughout the tournament.
00:47We'll have plenty more updates from inside the camp and all the build-up, of course, over on standard support as we head towards the opening game on Sunday.
00:58And we'll have plenty more updates from inside the camp and all the build-up, of course, over on standard support as we head towards the opening game on Sunday.