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And these are welcome changes. Potter and Parkinson are two really exciting young players who are playing really well for their clubs and represent the long-term future of the Lionesses. They deserve to be involved. Similar can be said of Freya Godfrey, the 21-year-old forward who has kept her place while someone as notable as Kelly has dropped out.<\/span><\/p>\n There are others looking to follow them into the squad, too. Ruby Mace could be knocking on the door again after being moved back into midfield by Everton this season, rather than playing in a centre-back position that is well-stocked for England. Laila Harbert left Arsenal this summer to sign for the San Diego Wave and is another highly-rated young player who could shake up the midfield in due course.<\/span><\/p>\n Katie Reid<\/span><\/a>, the Gunners’ centre-back, will be back from injury soon, having had to withdraw from her first Lionesses camp due to a devastating ACL tear. Michelle Agyemang, the breakout star of Euro 2025, will also hope to return soon from the same injury. Anouk Denton, meanwhile, who made her England debut at the end of 2025, is playing well for Bay FC.<\/span><\/p>\n These are all younger players that are asking to be looked at by Wiegman, trying to break into that squad and show the manager that she has more options worth looking at. The stalwarts, then, have to be on their toes. Wiegman has copped unnecessary criticism at times for a lack of trust in young players when, in actual fact, <\/span>she has always looked to promote those deserving from the U23s<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n This week’s squad announcement serves as a significant reminder of as much and will give a lot of encouragement to those looking to follow Potter, Parkinson and Godfrey into the Lionesses’ picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And these are welcome changes. Potter and Parkinson are two really exciting young players who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/16-9.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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