Leighton Baines has become the third player to withdraw from the England squad to face Slovenia and Scotland through injury.
Michael Carrick and Andros Townsend withdrew with groin and ankle problems earlier this week, and just 24 hours before the Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia, Everton left-back Baines also pulled out.
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A statement on the FA's official website read: "Leighton Baines has withdrawn from the England squad and will miss the games against Slovenia and Scotland.
"The Everton defender picked up an injury in training on Friday morning and will return to his club for treatment.
"No further call-ups will be made at this time."
Roy Hodgson told a news conference on Friday: "What happened was it was a relatively short training session. We'd had the warm-up, we'd had the passing work and were just about to go into a game situation which had only just begun when he felt his hamstring.
"Immediately he needed to stop the training because he's an experienced player and obviously realised something wasn't right.
"I can't tell you the extent -- we will have to wait until the doctors at Everton do their analysis or their research into the injury but it did mean he was out of the question for tomorrow."
Hodgson chose to leave Luke Shaw out of his squad for the games, a decision he is now ruing following Baines' injury.
He said: "Kieran Gibbs is the one to come in as unfortunately we had given our squad at 11 o'clock as we are duty-bound to do to UEFA and, because there were three left backs, I left him [Shaw] out of the 23 as we had 24 players at the time. As it turns out now we can't use him."
Hodgson said he understood the rule about naming his squad, but had hoped UEFA would show some flexibility to allow him to recall Shaw after Baines' injury occurred less than half an hour after the deadline to submit the 23 names.
He said: "I can't pretend that I think it's a great idea that you have to name 23 players almost 36 hours before the game because training injuries do occur and people do get injuries and fall sick.
"I would like to think that if you are allowed to have 23 players in your squad that you should at least have the right [to] a little bit longer than 36 hours ahead of the game.
"Having said that, I did know about the rule. My hope was that because we were only 25 minutes late when we applied to bring Luke back into the squad that maybe UEFA would look at that and say, 'It's a reasonable request and we can show some flexibility,' but they decided that wasn't possible, that the rule is the rule, and that 11 o'clock is the deadline and because the injury occurred 25 minutes past 11 we missed it."
The quality of the Wembley pitch has been under scrutiny following bad weather and the NFL games played at the national stadium in recent weeks.
However, Hodgson opted to reserve his judgement on the surface until after the game against Slovenia.
"I suppose I have to have concerns after what has been written and all of the reports," Hodgson said of the pitch. "A lot of them are pretty negative, but as far as I'm concerned I'm just waiting to see.
"Gary [Neville] has been to see the pitch, so we have a pretty clear update of how it is.
"I've got to say his update was perhaps not as critical as some of the other reports I've read, but as far as I'm concerned we're ready for the game and we will be ready for the game on whatever surface we play it. Any discussions about the pitch and how good or bad it is, I'll leave until after the game."