Kobbie Mainoo and Adam Wharton both make the cut but no place for James Maddison, Curtis Jones or Jarrad Branthwaite
to a final 26 was one of his most difficult days in the job but was adamant that it was the right decision to do so before Friday’s warm-up game against Iceland.
Maguire has been a mainstay of the Southgate era, featuring in 17 of England’s 19 tournament matches during his tenure, but Southgate insisted that including him would have been too much of a gamble. “We end up with 10 and we are shortchanging ourselves elsewhere for a player who is at higher risk of not getting there anyway and by the time he is fit he is out for seven weeks. There is all that dynamic to it. Yeah, it is a tough call but I think he knows in the last week he hasn’t been able to progress as much as we would have liked.”Maguire’s absence leaves an inexperienced backline, John Stones aside.
That 12 of the 26 players picked will experience a major tournament for the first time provides evidence of England’s evolution.“When I saw the squad earlier, I saw that I was the oldest midfielder and I didn’t really know how to take it, to be honest!” Rice said.
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