5 players who should've made the England squad

#4 Tammy Abraham

As previously mentioned when writing about Dominic Calvert-Lewin, the places for strikers in the England squad right now seem largely wide open, thanks to the injury history of Daniel Sturridge and the advanced age of Jermain Defoe and Jamie Vardy. One young talent who has to be looking for a breakthrough into the full squad, then, is Swansea City’s Chelsea loanee Tammy Abraham.

After a tremendous 2016/17 season on loan at Bristol City that saw him score 26 goals in all competitions, Abraham was one of the U-21 side’s most impressive performers in the European Championships this summer, scoring a goal against Germany in the semi-finals and doing an admirable job of holding the ball up when playing as a lone striker in the majority of the games.

He’s also hit the ground running with Swansea, starting all three of their league games thus far and scoring and being named as Man of the Match against Crystal Palace last weekend.

With a lanky build that allows him to be dangerous in the air, and have enough physicality to be able to hold the ball up well, Abraham would offer England something completely different to their recent fleet-footed strikers like Vardy and Sturridge, and he’s clearly got a natural eye for goal. With Abraham also being eligible to play for Nigeria, it seems smart that Southgate would want to get him into the England set-up sooner rather than later. I’d have had him in this squad – perhaps Southgate will call him up for the next set of qualifiers in October?