Smack: Cahill falls to the ground after his collision with Hart

'Absolutely, I feel for him. If that was me in his place, getting injured like that a week before the Euros, I'd feel so bad.

'I'd feel terrible. I'm sorry he's not able to go.'

Cahill's defensive team-mate Joleon Lescott - who now looks set to partner John Terry in the centre of England's back four - was unimpressed by Mertens' push and felt the Belgian could have been red-carded.

Lescott wrote on Twitter: 'Gutted to hear Gaz is ruled out. The challenge that caused it was more reckless and dangerous than most 2 footed tackles so why only yellow.'

England skipper Steven Gerrard has revealed his anger - not at Mertens but at England losing so many key players in the build-up to the finals in Poland and Ukraine.

He said: 'I am angry about it because we have lost some big players with a tournament eight or nine days away.

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