Barry in doubt for England

Gareth Barry has emerged as a doubt for Euro 2012 after sustaining a groin injury during England’s 1-0 friendly win over Norway in Oslo.

The Manchester City midfielder lasted less than 30 minutes of the second half after coming on as a substitute for Steven Gerrard and will now undergo a scan on Sunday to assess the injury.

Scott Parker was also forced off due to the Achilles problem which had threatened his place at the tournament in Ukraine and Poland, but England manager Roy Hodgson expects the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder to be fit.

“Well I think Scott (Parker)’s been okay, we wanted to give him a bit longer than 45 minutes to test him out to see if he was going to get a reaction,” Hodgson said.

“At the moment there’s no reaction, we’ll find out maybe tomorrow.

“Gareth Barry worries me more, because he did feel his groin so we’ll have to get that scanned.

“We don’t have a lot of opportunities (and) we don’t have much time left and if it was a serious groin injury I dare say that could be something for me seriously to think about.”

England have another friendly at home to Belgium next Saturday, before beginning their Euro 2012 campaign with a match against Group D opponents France on June 11.