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If you could make one change to the England squad, what would it be?

I feel a bit sorry for Southgate. He has a job that every fan thinks they can do better and no-one is ever going to fully agree. :lol: He’s the only manager since I’ve been alive that has made the England squad look like they want to be together and has reached a semi-final and a final. Something that felt miles off under the last so many managers. He gets more stick than he deserves. The last Nations League is the only time we’ve not performed under him.

 

I think the squad is pretty decent. The only ones that I personally think don’t deserve to be there are Dier & Gallagher. I think we would have been better in calling up someone like Dan Burn who can cover LB as well seeming that we only have one natural LB in the squad. And Gallagher has done nothing since going back to Chelsea. I’d have preferred to see Ward-Prowse. He hasn’t had a great season but he offers something different with his set pieces.

 

I think the discourse around Maguire is a bit much. He would be one of my first picks, not for his club form but because he had been a key-performer for England over a long period of time and we need to keep some consistency. A major tournament is not the time to try and throw in a bunch of players who haven’t played together.

 

I am shocked there’s no Abraham after he’s been a constant for the last four or five squads.

 

Agree wholeheartedly with this, think back to the exit against Iceland in 2016 and look at the team England had then and they are miles away from that low and that is because of the manager creating a club mentality within the team and it’s hard to do as the many failures have shown.

 

It’s funny how now there is expectation everyone knows better than the manager.

 

Agree I would have put Dan Burn in for his versatility and would have stuck with Walker given his experience despite the injuries. Maybe only Wilson raises an eyebrow but he’s a proven goal scorer the likes of Bowen etc haven’t really fully convinced about yet.

 

Southgate was always going to have a hard job and get slated for leaving/taking players. With a squad of 26 you can afford to take a couple of non-fit players. I think the issue is with this team, is we actually have some excellent attacking players, but we play such a turgid brand of football and don't really have any standout defenders. I've really low expectations for this England side anyhow, we don't have too many players in great form and I don't think this team is that good. Suspect we'll get a tough draw somewhere and get knocked out - no shame in that, this was never a World Cup we were likely to do that well in imo, the conditons out there are very much against us.

Poland squad

 

 

Goalkeepers: Bartlomiej Dragowski (Spezia), Lukasz Skorupski (Bologna), Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus).

 

Defenders: Jan Bednarek (Aston Villa), Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria), Matty Cash (Aston Villa), Kamil Glik (Benevento), Robert Gumny (FC Augsburg), Artur Jedrzejczyk (Legia Warsaw), Jakub Kiwior (Spezia), Mateusz Wieteska (Clermont), Nicola Zalewski (Roma).

 

Midfielders: Krystian Bielik (Birmingham City), Przemyslaw Frankowski (Lens), Kamil Grosicki (Pogon Szczecin), Jakub Kaminski (VfL Wolfsburg), Grzegorz Krychowiak (Al-Shabab), Michal Skoras (Lech Poznan), Damian Szymanski (AEK Athens), Sebastian Szymanski (Feyenoord), Piotr Zielinski (Napoli), Szymon Zurkowski (Fiorentina).

 

Forwards: Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona), Arkadiusz Milik (Juventus), Krzysztof Piatek (Salernitana), Karol Swiderski (Charlotte FC).

Morocco squad:

 

 

Goalkeepers: Yassine Bounou (Sevilla), Munir El Kajoui (Al Wehda), Ahmed Reda Tagnaouti (Wydad Casablanca).

 

Defenders: Nayef Aguerd (West Ham United), Yahia Attiat Allah (Wydad Casablanca), Badr Benoun (Qatar SC), Achraf Dari (Stade Brest), Jawad El Yamiq (Real Valladolid), Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain), Noussair Mazraoui (Bayern Munich), Romain Saiss (Besiktas).

 

Midfielders: Sofyan Amrabat (Fiorentina), Selim Amallah (Standard Liege), Bilal El Khannouss (Racing Genk), Yahya Jabrane (Wydad Casablanca), Azzedine Ounahi (Angers), Abdelhamid Sabiri (Sampdoria).

 

Forwards: Zakaria Aboukhlal (Toulouse), Soufiane Boufal (Angers), Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers), Walid Cheddira (Bari), Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla), Abde Ezzalzouli (Osasuna), Abderrazak Hamdallah (Al Ittihad), Amine Harit (Olympique Marseille), Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea).

Portugal squad

 

Goalkeepers: Diogo Costa (Porto), Rui Patricio (AS Roma), Jose Sa (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

 

Defenders: Joao Cancelo (Manchester City), Diogo Dalot (Manchester United), Ruben Dias (Manchester City), Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Nuno Mendes (Paris St-Germain), Pepe (Porto), Danilo Pereira (Paris St-Germain), Antonio Silva (Benfica)

 

Midfielders: William Carvalho (Real Betis), Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United), Joao Mario (Benfica), Ruben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Matheus Nunes (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Otavio (Porto), Joao Palhinha (Fulham), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Vitinha (Paris St-Germain)

 

Forwards: Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid), Ricardo Horta (SC Braga), Rafael Leao (AC Milan), Goncalo Ramos (Benfica), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Andre Silva (RB Leipzig)

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Senegal squad:

 

Goalkeepers: Seny Dieng (Queens Park Rangers), Alfred Gomis (Rennes), Edouard Mendy (Chelsea).

 

Defenders: Fode Ballo-Toure (AC Milan), Pape Abdou Cisse (Olympiakos), Abdou Diallo (RB Leipzig), Ismail Jakobs (Monaco), Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea), Formose Mendy (Amiens), Youssouf Sabaly (Real Betis).

 

Midfielders: Pathe Ciss (Rayo Vallecano), Krepin Diatta (Monaco), Idrissa Gana Gueye (Everton), Pape Gueye (Marseille), Cheikhou Kouyate (Nottingham Forest), Mamadou Loum Ndiaye (Reading), Nampalys Mendy (Leicester City), Moustapha Name (Pafos), Pape Matar Sarr (Tottenham Hotspur).

 

Forwards: Boulaye Dia (Salernitana), Famara Diedhiou (Alanyaspor), Bamba Dieng (Marseille), Nicolas Jackson (Villarreal), Sadio Mane (Bayern Munich), Iliman Ndiaye (Sheffield United), Ismaila Sarr (Watford).

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