England World Cup squad: Ranking players from 'Starting XI' to 'Watching at home'

England’s preparations for the Qatar World Cup haven’t exactly gone to plan as they’ve been relegated from their Nations League group.

Gareth Southgate’s side lost 1-0 to Italy in Milan on Friday, leaving them with just two points from their five matches played so far.

With the World Cup now less than two months away, Southgate has a tough job on his hands to get the Three Lions in shape for Qatar.

With so much work for the boss to do, we’ve decided to make life a bit easy for him and pick his 26-man squad for the tournament.

Using a template already created on Tiermaker, we’ve placed England players into six different categories depending on their chances of playing at the Qatar World Cup.

We have no doubt you will all disagree with our opinion. After all, selecting 26 players for England’s squad certainly isn’t an easy task.

But from ‘Watching at home’ to ‘Starting XI’ here is our ranking of England players ahead of the greatest competition in sport.

Like the rest of the nation, these six players will likely be watching the World Cup at home in front of their fires.

Johnstone is probably England’s fifth choice goalkeeper right now with Jordan Pickford, Aaron Ramsdale, Nick Pope and Dean Henderson ahead of him in the pecking order.

As for Mings, the Aston Villa defender looks to be well out of favour and needs a miracle to make the World Cup squad.

Lingard probably needs an even bigger miracle with plenty of midfielders ahead of him.

Meanwhile, strikers Watkins, Calvert-Lewin and Wilson stand better chances of making the squad but will need an incredible run of form in the coming weeks to be in contention.

This quartet will still be dreaming of playing at World this winter but they’ll need a lot of luck if they are to