Young, 26, was hurt in a collision with Andriy Shevchenko, who came on as a substitute for the co-hosts in Donetsk and was booked for the challenge.
The Manchester United player was still suffering the effects of the injury on Wednesday, walking with a limp, but was reported as saying he was optimistic that he would be ready to face the Italians in Kiev.
He will undergo further treatment on Thursday, but England’s medical staff are also hopeful that he will have recovered by Sunday.
Young is coach Roy Hodgson’s biggest worry as he prepares to hold a closed training session at England’s base in Poland.
Meanwhile, the England coach revealed that his squad had been stepping up penalty practice as they prepared for the possibility of a quarter-final shootout.
He said the vexed history of England and penalties - which includes two semi-final defeats in shootouts against Germany - meant “the past is going to weigh heavily”.
“We have used the time after training sessions to regularly practice, and we'll obviously take it even more seriously now,” Hodgson said. “You hope that, one day, it will make a big difference.
"But you can practice penalty shoot-outs until the cows come home - it's really your composure, your confidence, your ability to really block everything out and forget the occasion that means you score or don't.
“When you are working with the England national team, the past is always going to weigh heavily because everything we do today is being compared with something that went before.”
source: ESPN
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