raheem sterling is one of those left out, whilst in comes both lewis dunk, the brighton centre back whosernational appearance was in 2018, and also crystal palace's average esa, the one uncapped player who is very strong despite the timing of the fixtures. isa is a very odd situation, it comes 19 days after the premier league game ends —— season ends, so gareth southgate says they'll manage the players loaded and trying to keep them fit and prepared for that. but not only has he got players not playing football, he has quite a few of his squad, the manchester city players, involved in the champions league, so they'll play that final a couple days before the england squad join up and prepare for that match. so it'll be interesting to see what he does, but gareth southgate says he does, but gareth southgate says he was always going to name a strong team. they started the campaign really well against italy and ukraine, and they don't want to let it slip — although these matches are against malta and north macedonia, countries on paper who they should beat, he said they want to back up the go