Gareth Southgate has explained a lack of goal involvements and regular football led to the respective omissions of Jesse Lingard and Dele Alli from his latest England squad.
Lingard and Alli were two of the stars of England s run to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup but have struggled for their best form of late.
The Manchester United attacker is without a goal or an assist in the Premier League in 2019, while Alli has been a relatively peripheral figure for Tottenham after recovering from a hamstring injury.
Liverpool s Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain has been similarly left out, with Southgate unable to ignore the claims of James Maddison and Mason Mount.
I think Jesse s had a difficult period. He s aware of that, the England manager told a Wembley news co…