Jack Grealish looked set to be the first name cut before his cameo against Bosnia. Eberechi Eze was brilliant but the Manchester City man answered his critics.
On this day last year Jack Grealish was celebrating his major role in Manchester City’s second gong of three. A week later he was lifting the Champions League trophy and appeared to spend the majority of the week after that bare-chested in the rain drinking Grey Goose straight from the bottle.
Grealish has experience on his side. He now has 35 caps for England including ten major tournament appearances. Southgate values his “character” and the role he plays as a squad man – not something to be sniffed at among players set chiefly for a watching brief. And having looked “really bright” in training he was similarly sharp in the last half hour at St James’ Park.
He’s given Southgate a lovely headache. Eze was excellent, drawing opponents in and slipping past them with power and body swerves. That should be enough to earn him a seat on the plane, obviously Bukayo Saka’s in, and Phil Foden, almost certainly Cole Palmer after his debut goal from the penalty spot and glimpses of brilliance besides and probably Anthony Gordon to provide outright speed on the left.
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