𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤-𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲.
England's boss Gareth Southgate has announced his 23-man squad for the upcoming World Cup in Russia, which kicks-off in less than a month's time, and although there where no major surprises, there where some decisions that raised a few eyebrows.
Both veteran goalkeeper Joe Hart & Arsenal's injury prone midfielder Jack Wilshere have been left out of both the 23-man and stand-by lists, with young stars Trent Alexander-Arnold (who will be playing in the Uefa Champions League final in a few days) & Ruben Loftus-Cheek both included in the 23-man squad.
The 3 Lions have been drawn in group G, along Belgium, Tunisia & Panama. They kick off their World Cup campaign vs Tunisia on the 18th of June.
Here are England's 23-man & stand-by squad's in full :
𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Jack Butland (Stoke), Nick Pope (Burnley)
𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Kieran Trippier, Danny Rose (both Tottenham), Harry Maguire (Leicester), Phil Jones (Man Utd), Kyle Walker, John Stones (both Man City), Gary Cahill (Chelsea)
𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: Jordan Henderson, (Liverpool), Eric Dier, Dele Alli (both Tottenham), Jesse Lingard, Ashley Young (both Man Utd), Fabian Delph (Man City), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea).
𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬: Raheem Sterling (Man City), Jamie Vardy (Leicester), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Man Utd), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal).
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝-𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭: Tom Heaton (Burnley), James Tarkowski (Burnley), Lewis Cook (Bournemouth), Jake Livermore (West Bromwich Albion), Adam Lallana (Liverpool)