Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Manchester City’s Rico Lewis have earned first senior call-ups to the England squad for this month’s Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia.
Attacking midfielder Palmer had missed out on Gareth Southgate’s latest selection last week despite an impressive start to life at Stamford Bridge following his summer move from Manchester City, instead being named in Lee Carsley’s Under-21 squad.
Lewis, who can operate at right-back or defensive midfield, had also been picked by Carsley, with Southgate saying he was content to let...
Has Rico Lewis really been (a) getting enough game time and (b) demonstrating the kind of quality that suggests an international cap? (This is not a rhetorical question; I do not, as a rule, watch Manchester City games.)
A) a shame you don’t watch the best team in England
B) yes he is peps preferred choice after Bernardo and stones to play next to Rodri, and plays like he’s been there for 5 years
C) he’s England best hope currently of not seeing henderson or Phillips play in the euros
Has Rico Lewis really been (a) getting enough game time and (b) demonstrating the kind of quality that suggests an international cap? (This is not a rhetorical question; I do not, as a rule, watch Manchester City games.)
A) a shame you don’t watch the best team in England B) yes he is peps preferred choice after Bernardo and stones to play next to Rodri, and plays like he’s been there for 5 years C) he’s England best hope currently of not seeing henderson or Phillips play in the euros
Manchester City are boring as hell to watch. And Guardiola wants them to be boring. Control. Control. Control.