Southgate may offer England recall to Dunk, Mings and Alexander-Arnold

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Tyrone Mings and Lewis Dunk are pushing for recalls when Gareth Southgate picks his England squad on Wednesday, and Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze is hoping for his first callup after a sparkling end to the season.

Southgate, who is expected to bring Raheem Sterling back after the winger missed the last camp, has seen his plans for next month’s Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia complicated by injuries and Manchester City and West Ham reaching European finals.

City’s progress to the Champions League final against Internazionale on 10 June means their England contingent of John Stones, Kyle Walker, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish and Kalvin Phillips will be given permission to report late for international duty. Declan Rice is in a similar position because West Ham face Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on 7 June. Stones, Walker, Foden, Grealish, Phillips and Rice may not be in a position to start away to Malta on 16 June.

Injury problems are set to rule out Chelsea’s Ben Chilwell, Mason Mount and Reece James, and Brentford’s Ivan Toney is serving an eight-month ban for a breach of Football Association betting rules. However, Southgate, whose side opened the qualifying campaign by beating Italy and Ukraine, can still choose from a wide range of options.

Dunk, whose only previous cap came against USA in 2018, has enjoyed an excellent season with Brighton and the 31-year-old centre-back could return after helping Roberto De Zerbi’s side qualify for Europe. Mings, who lost his England place last year, is also hoping for good news after impressing in central defence for Aston Villa. The Palace defender Marc Guéhi is another defender in contention.

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