{"id":12839,"date":"2025-04-06T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/michelle-agyemang-replaces-injured-alessia-russo-for-first-england-call-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:09:50","slug":"michelle-agyemang-replaces-injured-alessia-russo-for-first-england-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/michelle-agyemang-replaces-injured-alessia-russo-for-first-england-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Agyemang replaces injured Alessia Russo for first England call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Michelle Agyemang has earned her first senior England call-up as she replaces Alessia Russo in the squad for the Women’s Nations League return fixture against Belgium on Tuesday.<\/b><\/p>\n

Brighton forward Agyemang, 19, is part of England’s under-19 and under-23 squads. <\/p>\n

Russo has returned to Arsenal for further assessment on an unspecified injury. <\/p>\n

She played 73 minutes of England’s 5-0 win<\/a> in the first leg against Belgium at Ashton Gate on 4 April. <\/p>\n

Lauren James has also been ruled out of the return fixture in Leuven with a hamstring injury, and she has been replaced by Tottenham’s Jess Naz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

England are top of Group A3 of the Nations League with two wins from three so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Michelle Agyemang has earned her first senior England call-up as she replaces Alessia Russo in the squad for the Women’s Nations League return fixture against Belgium on Tuesday. Brighton forward Agyemang, 19, is part of England’s under-19 and under-23 squads. Russo has returned to Arsenal for further assessment on an unspecified injury. She played 73 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12841,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions\/12841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}