Maddison and Gallagher IN - England squad reaction
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Leventhal is joined by Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jay Harris for reaction to Gareth Southgate naming his 26-man squad for the World Cup in Qatar. The big news is Leicester's James Maddison is finally in the squad, plus a surprise inclusion for Chelsea's Conor Gallagher, as well as a place for Newcastle's in-form striker Callum Wilson.
There's a look at how those three will feature during the tournament, plus discussion of Harry Maguire's role in the team, whether Sterling will keep his place, how you get the best out of England's many attacking options, and we pick our starting XI for the game against Iran
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.9 | So Gareth Southgate has named his 26-man squad for the Qatar World Cup. |
| 0:09.5 | The surprise inclusions are James Madison, Conner Gallagher, and Callum Wilson with the likes of |
| 0:15.0 | Jaden Sancho, Fikaiot Tamah Abraham, Ivan Tony and James Ward Prouse all missing out. But is this a strong |
| 0:23.5 | enough squad to emulate the achievements of the last two tournaments? I'm Adam Leventhal and this |
| 0:29.1 | is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Adam Leventhal and this is the Athletic Football Podcast. He's playing really well. |
| 0:44.0 | Look, he's a good player. |
| 0:46.3 | We've always said he's a good player. |
| 0:48.1 | He's earned the right. |
| 0:51.6 | We think he can give us something slightly different to the other attacking players that we've got. |
| 0:53.9 | So I think at various stages there have been conversations, debates about James. |
| 1:00.2 | There's been moments where, you know, ahead of the Euros, I don't think he was in contention. |
| 1:05.9 | He had a bit of a problem with his hip. |
| 1:07.4 | And then I think September was probably a fair debate but I think he's playing |
| 1:12.4 | as well as any of the attacking players in this country and yeah he is a little bit different |
| 1:17.5 | to the others we've got different types of threat and I think we could need that. Well, the Athletics England correspondent Jack Pitt Brook joins us, having just been at Gareth |
| 1:38.3 | Southgate's press conference at St George's Park. |
| 1:41.2 | We're also joined by Jay Harris, who's going to be part of the athletics team out in Qatar. |
| 1:46.5 | So the business is done, Jack. |
| 1:48.1 | We finally got to the point where we know who is going to be on the plane, |
| 1:52.0 | barring, I guess, what happens this weekend and the almost unavoidable last-minute hiccups |
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