BetVictor have issued their latest odds on who Gareth Southgate will select as part of his tournament squad for the Qatar World Cup. England have just two games left before they board the plane to the Middle East in November and Southgate will have little chance to experiment with his team from this point.
That will be a major worry given the shockingly poor display that the Three Lions mustered in their recent Nations League encounters – the highlight of which coming in their 4-0 home defeat to Hungary on Monday evening.
It was England’s worst defeat on English soil since 1928, and after three other winless matches in which the team managed only a single goal, it’s fair to say optimism across the nation has dropped like the air from a popped balloon.
Southgate’s honeymoon period after his recent tournament successes is well truly and over, which means the pressure is on him now more than ever to get his team selection right.