The 25-year-old experienced a split in the thigh muscle mass throughout the week at 2-1 versus Dynamo Zagreb in the Champions Organization, as his club FC Chelsea revealed on Saturday.
Whitwell will now finish a rehabilitation program, it claimed.
The protective player was considered an alternative to Luke Shaw on the.
On the appropriate protective side, the fellow fave for the event from November 20 to December 18, with the failing of routine player Reece James, who is also hurt.
The English satisfy Iran in preliminary rounded team B, the United States and Wales.