Jesse Lingard called up as Carrick and Vardy are ruled out

Sunday 15 Nov 2015
Jesse Lingard in action for the U21s

Manchester United forward Jesse Lingard has been called in to the England squad ahead of Tuesday's game against France.

The 22-year-old will join up with the Three Lions' squad on Sunday to help bolster Roy Hodgson's ranks after two players were forced out through injury.

Lingard's Old Trafford team-mate Michael Carrick was stretchered off in the last minute of England's 2-0 defeat to Spain on Friday.

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Carrick has returned to his club and will not be available for England's final game of the year. 

Meanwhile Jamie Vardy, who sat out the game in Alicante with a knock sustained in Leicester City's Premier League encounter with Watford last weekend, will also miss Tuesday's match with the French. 

England returned from Spain on Saturday and, following the tragic events in Paris on Friday night, it was decided that the meeting with France would go ahead. 

As planned, Hodgson's squad dispersed for 24 hours shortly after landing on home soil and will regroup at their Hertfordshire base on Sunday evening. 

It will be Lingard's first time with the senior squad, though the former Birmingham City and Brighton & Hove Albion loanee has played for England's Under-21s and Under-17s. 

 He made his debut at U21 level as a substitute against Scotland when Hodgson took charge of the team in August 2013.

By Jamie Bradbury FA Editor At the England team hotel