Harry Maguire, Lewis Hall, Adam Wharton, Eberechi Eze, Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer, Danny Welbeck.<\/p>\n
Harry Maguire looks to have a fight on his hands to make the squad after Tuchel appeared to suggest four defenders were ahead of him in the pecking order, in Stones, Guehi, Konsa and – surprisingly – Chelsea’s Trevoh Chalobah.<\/p>\n
This should not be the case.<\/p>\n
The first three have been established since Maguire fell away from the England scene, but he is now back and has proved his worth and strength of character.<\/p>\n
Given Stones’ fragility, Maguire would be a common-sense pick, if not as a first choice, then as experienced back-up who has been the course and distance at major tournaments before.<\/p>\n
He will not only offer defensive cover, but has proved he can be an attacking weapon, albeit a very basic one, if it comes to a desperate search for a goal.<\/p>\n
Maguire is my selection ahead of Newcastle United’s Dan Burn, who has struggled on his England appearances. <\/p>\n
Is Adam Wharton a Tuchel player? The jury still seems out on the gifted Crystal Palace midfielder with the languid style. <\/p>\n
Class still speaks and he has lots of it, especially in his passing range, so I am going for him in this squad – whether Tuchel shares that view remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
Newcastle United’s Lewis Hall is a natural left-back, which will be of value, and he showed his quality in a lively cameo against Japan.<\/p>\n
And while Tuchel appears certain to pick Brentford’s Jordan Henderson – 36 on the day of England’s first World Cup game – for his value as a leader setting an example, I am going for the younger midfield option in Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo, even though he was nowhere near his best against Japan, especially when England were not in possession.<\/p>\n
Mainoo has been revitalised under Michael Carrick at Manchester United after being marginalised by former head coach Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n
This is a very tough call on Henderson (who Tuchel will pick anyway) but I believe one experienced old head who may not start if everyone is fit but offers influence around the squad – in this case Maguire – is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Maguire, Lewis Hall, Adam Wharton, Eberechi Eze, Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer, Danny Welbeck. Harry Maguire looks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-575300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}