I’m convinced Thomas Tuchel pretty much knows his eleven – and the way this squad is split tells us even more.<\/p>\n
The main question mark for me is who starts as the 10 – I struggle to comprehend an England side without Jude Bellingham in it if fit, but clearly Tuchel likes Morgan Rogers after a brilliant season.<\/p>\n
However, with Aston Villa not quite in the form they were and Bellingham back in action for Real Madrid, he may still yet force Tuchel to rethink.<\/p>\n
In midfield, Declan Rice and Elliot Anderson are two of the first names on the team sheet – Anderson’s emergence this season could be the difference between success and failure this summer and is a player I genuinely think Gareth Southgate would have loved to have had.<\/p>\n
I do think there is time for the two either side of Harry Kane to change, though right now an on-song Bukayo Saka has to start, and Anthony Gordon’s numbers are hard to ignore.<\/p>\n
Defensively, Lewis Hall’s form means for me he’s the current standout choice at left-back, and at centre-back if John Stones hadn’t had such an injury-ravaged season I’d have loved to have him and his experience alongside Manchester City team-mate Marc Guehi. <\/p>\n
Let’s also hope Reece James is fully fit by the time 17 June comes around too – it would have been interesting to have seen Trent Alexander-Arnold in this squad too, just to give us a different option from full-back.<\/p>\n
A notable mention also for Nico O’Reilly who’s missing mainly because I’m not sure where he’d play – though performances like in the Carabao Cup final will only enhance his chances of forcing his way in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m convinced Thomas Tuchel pretty much knows his eleven – and the way this squad is split tells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-572408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}