A back injury has forced keeper Chris Kirkland to withdraw from the England squad to face France this week, with Robert Green handed a call up.Wigan goalkeeper Kirkland played throughout Saturday's 3-1 Premier League defeat against Blackburn but has since reported discomfort, after appearing to injury himself early on at Ewood Park.

Green becomes the second goalkeeper to be added to the squad, with Tottenham's Paul Robinson called up last night following an injury to Aston Villa's on-loan Liverpool man Scott Carson.

Of the three initially selected, only Portsmouth's David James managed to come through his weekend assignment unscathed - in a 2-0 defeat against Robinson's Spurs at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

England boss Capello will continue assessing his players this week as he looks to instil the winning mentality he feels is needed for the World Cup qualifying campaign and beyond.

Capello has been busy watching games since his appointment in December and also had the friendly against Switzerland to get a feel of what he has to work with.

With France providing the next test, Capello admits he is still on a learning curve.

"It is my challenge, but it is a challenge we need to meet together - the players and I," said the Italian.

"This is the job I have set out to achieve, and I have five friendly games at my disposal before the competitive games.

"This is a challenge - and as for every challenge, in order to reach your targets you need to understand where you are going to operate when you need to work.

"At the moment I am working towards understanding what needs to be done - also gathering information on where I can work in order to avoid making the same mistakes that were made before."

Capello showed his ruthless streak yesterday by dropping Jermaine Jenas and Shaun Wright-Phillips, who scored the goals against the Swiss, from his provisional list of players to take to Stade de France.

Gabriel Agbonlahor, Ashley Young, Jermain Defoe and David Wheater also missed out - with Carson, Matthew Upson and now Kirkland ruled out through injury.

As for Robinson, his recall marks a huge change in fortunes for the 28-year-old.

Robinson was dropped from the Spurs team earlier in the season and spent 10 games on the sidelines before returning just before his club's Carling Cup triumph at Wembley.

The former Leeds stopper was first choice in the previous regime until the final game of Steve McClaren's reign when Carson was preferred against Croatia, with England missing out on a place in this summer's European Championships.

Capello wants to help forge a change in mentality from previous years.

"Having world-class players is not enough if you don't have a winning mentality, a team or group mentality," he said on thefa.com.

"There are obviously important players - but wherever I have worked so far, if you need to build a house you start with what you have and capitalise on that.

"The important thing is that we need to bring back self-confidence, and the right mentality in order to do good things."

Capello is not expected to name his captain for the France game until Tuesday at the earliest.

He said: "I have two or three ideas - I will decide before the game. I have already said that the permanent captain will be decided before the World Cup qualifiers."

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