England's Gareth Barry a doubt for Euro 2012 with groin injury !!!

Gareth Barry replaced Steven Gerrard in Olso but had to go off himself with a groin problem. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images

Roy Hodgson's winning start as England's new manager was tarnished by an injury for Gareth Barry that could mean the Manchester City midfielder is ruled out of Euro 2012. Barry, a half-time replacement for Steven Gerrard in England's 1-0 win in Norway last night, was forced out of the match after 73 minutes with a groin injury and will have a scan in the morning to determine the seriousness of the problem.

"The situation with Gareth Barry worries me and if it's serious that will give me something to think about as we don't have much time left," Hodgson said. "I spoke to Gareth and he told me: 'I think I need a scan'. Something happened during the course of the game and now we need to see how it is.

"I'm not prepared to say it is serious but it is certainly going to dominate our attention and we don't have a lot of time if the scan shows there is something more than minor [wrong]."

If Hodgson's worst fears are confirmed, the new manager will have to decidRe whether to bring in Jordan Henderson from the standby list or reconfigure his squad and promote the centre-half, Phil Jagielka, at a time when England also have concerns about Glen Johnson's toe problem.

The likelihood is he will go for Jagielka, one of England's better performers in their first victory against Norway since 1980. "I'd have to think very seriously about that," Hodgson said.

Hodgson was otherwise satisfied with his first match in charge while acknowledging his players had not shown enough control after Ashley Young's early goal. "I'm not prepared to be critical in any way but I'm also very aware that we are still a work in progress," he said.

"We had only three days to get ready for a difficult game and yet we have come here and got a result that everyone tells me that doesn't happen here too often. So that was a great start for us because everyone knows how difficult it is to win in Norway.

"I didn't think we were as good going forward as we are going to be, but that will come. It was a team without quite a few famous names and with a new defence and a new combination in attack so I've taken an awful lot from the fact we've beaten good-quality opponents. We've had three tough days training and I was a bit concerned about the fatigue factor.

"You could see towards the end one or two players were feeling their muscles, but that is because we worked so hard in training. Everybody has been doing so much to impress me."

Hodgson was particularly encouraged by Andy Carroll's link-up play with Young as he tries to put together a strike partnership to compensate for the fact that Wayne Rooney is suspended from the first two tournament games against France and Sweden.

"He [Carroll] was good, full stop. Young and Carroll proved they can do that job. Perhaps we could have been a little bit more positive, and there was an element of keeping the ball sometimes when we could have got it forward earlier to get those two players in, but that is something we have to work on.

"We've started talking about it and sewing a few seeds and by the time the European Championship comes around we will have done a lot more work and will be getting Ashley Young into positions like that more often."