Maddison and Gallagher IN - England squad reaction

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:04.0	So Gareth Southgate has named his 26-man squad for the Qatar World Cup.
0:09.4	The surprise inclusions are James Madison, Connor Gallagher Gallagher and Callum Wilson with the likes of
0:14.9	Jadon Sancho, Ficchio Tomori, Tammy Abraham, Ivan Tony and James Ward Proust
0:20.0	Proust all missing out but is this a strong enough squad to emulate the achievements of the last two
0:26.8	tournaments I'm Adam Leventhal and this is the athletic football podcast. He's playing really well.
0:33.0	He's playing really well.
0:43.0	Look, he's a good player.
0:44.0	We've always said he's a good player.
0:46.0	He's earned the right.
0:48.0	We think he can give us something slightly different to the other
0:52.0	attacking players that we've got.
0:54.0	So I think at various stages there have been conversations, debates about James.
1:00.0	There's been moments where, you know, ahead of the Euro, I don't think he was in contention.
1:05.8	He had a bit of a problem with his hip and then I think September was probably a fair debate,
1:11.4	but I think he's playing as well as any of the attacking players in this country
1:15.8	and yeah he is a little bit different to the others we've got different types of threat and I think
1:20.0	we could need that. Or the Well, the Well the Athletics England correspondent Jack Pitt Brook joins us having just been at
1:38.0	Garris Southgate's press conference at St George's Park. We're also
1:41.6	joined by Jay Harris who's going to be part of the
1:44.2	athletics team out in Qatar. So the business is done Jack. We finally got to the
1:49.0	point where we know who is going to be on the plane, barring I guess what happens this weekend and the almost
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