Gary Cahill revealed the details of Roy Hodgson 's midwinter message emailed to his England players to keep their minds on his plans during void since they were last together . Hodgson wanted to gather his squad for dinner in January but the plan failed and he was forced to settle for this recorded address dropped into the in-boxes of his players . 'It was in the same format as how we would have a team meeting in here at St George 's Park , ' said vice-captain Cahill . 'It was a similar thing . It was good , literally the same as we 'd do in a team meeting here . Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has revealed details of an email that Roy Hodgson sent to his England players . England vice-captain Cahill faces the media ahead of Friday 's Euro 2016 qualifying clash with Lithuania . Cahill takes a tumble with Wayne Rooney as England trained at St George 's Park on Tuesday . England manager Hodgson issues instructions as the players prepare for Friday 's match at Wembley . 'It was the bullet points of what he wants to drill home as a team and then split off individually , so the defensive unit for me . 'It was sent to our private emails . You put your secret passcode in , then you ' re away . I think Roy wanted to have some sort of contact with the squad . It was a good idea and the lads took to it well . ' England met on Monday ahead of a Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania on Friday and a friendly in Italy on Tuesday , their first games since November , when they beat Scotland and Slovenia . Chelsea defender Cahill added : 'We re-capped a lot of those things when we met up to refresh our memories about the way we 'd been playing . We saw clips of things we did really well and which he hoped we 'd do , like winning the ball back quickly which we did well against Scotland . Cahill challenges England new-boy Harry Kane during the session on Tuesday . Cahill spoke about how Hodgson kept his players focused via email in January . 'We harassed them and pressed them and won the ball back really quickly , so yes , points like that and points from what he wants to keep drilling into the players that we 've been doing since the summer . ' England are already without injured Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana and Hodgson anticipates other players missing the Italy game . Raheem Sterling is struggling with a toe injury and Leighton Baines has only recently returned to action . Hodgson said : ' I fear we 're going to lose a few more . ' 'There 's one or two that I know wo n't be able to join us against Italy because of the current problems that they 're dealing with at the moment . So on this occasion in particular it wo n't be as strong a team as I maybe would have liked to put out . '
Roy Hodgson wanted to meet with England players for dinner in January . When the plans fell through Hodgson sent an email to all his players . He said he was sorry but that they were not going to be able to make it because of a scheduling conflict, and asked them if there would be any other time when they could come together?