Robbie Fowler has defined how Trent Alexander-Arnold needs to be utilised by Gareth Southgate on the European Championships.
The Liverpool ace began in midfield for England’s first two video games of the match in Germany however has been dropped for tonight’s conflict with Slovenia in Cologne.
Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher has been chosen forward of the Scouser in midfield however ex-Crimson Fowler can’t perceive why Alexander-Arnold is just not being deployed at proper wing-back.
“The very best managers construct groups which are higher than the sum of their elements,” Fowler informed the Every day Mirror (by way of The Kop Instances).
“And if it ain’t working, then they repair it. Trent Alexander-Arnold is a living proof. Gareth doesn’t fancy Trent at full-back as a result of he feels he has higher choices in Kyle Walker and Kieran Trippier.
“However the gamble of crowbarring Trent in alongside Declan Rice in midfield hasn’t labored. If something, an elite pivot must be much more switched on defensively than a full-back as a result of their function is to learn the place hazard is coming from and plug the hole earlier than bother is allowed to escalate.”
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“It’s a specialist job. Asking TAA to do this when, in my view, he is among the greatest right-backs within the sport, appears unusual to say the least,” he added.
“Trent HAS to play. Absolutely the reply is to deploy him as a wing-back, with Walker, John Stones and Marc Guehi stiffening the centre of defence.”
England’s squad is stacked with expertise however Southgate can after all solely choose 11 gamers.
For Alexander-Arnold to be overlooked of the aspect is baffling nonetheless, when you think about the flexibility he has to calve open defences along with his passing capability and his world-class high quality from set-pieces.
Our No.66 impressed on quite a few events final time period when he was chosen in midfield by Jurgen Klopp however he’s made his title without any consideration again ever since his senior Liverpool debut in 2016.
That’s the place Fowler believes the Englishman’s future lies – or in a barely extra superior wing-back function – nevertheless it stays to be seen what plans the Three Lions boss has for the rest of the match.
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