Yes or No, the Euro 2016 squad

[Sportshead]

Almost definitely Smalling and Cahill
Safe option in Woys mind

[dino1980]

Anyone else think there's a slim chance Barkley could miss out on the squad?

He doesn't, to me at least, seem first or even second choice in the formations Roy is likely to set us up in.

In the 4-3-3 he's behind: Alli, Dier, Wishere, Milner, Henderson etc in the midfield three.

In the 4-2-3-1 he's behind Rooney, Alli and maybe even Sterling and Lallana in the no 10 role (his best role) and surely not a contender for the double pivot.

In the diamond formation it's as above really.

He's clearly a better impact player off the bench than most of the other midfielders in the squad, and Roy trusts him, but realistically would he see more minutes than Wilshere, Drinkwater in the above formations and moreover, is he better than them in that role? I can't see him missing out but should he?

[Ironside]

delph out and moved to stand by

[JohnCharver]

Stones defended alot better tonight, smalling poor a couple of times. Preferred these two fullbacks. The concern with our formation seems to be that the other team just go down the sides and are free on the fullback and totally bypass our overcrowded midfield. A couple of them trying too hard in there and undoing their good work straight after they did it.

[TightEnd]

So Delph is out. Who are the other two you are leaving behind?

[exstream]

Sturridge injury bad?
Wonder if rashford goes anyway

[JohnCharver]

So Delph is out. Who are the other two you are leaving behind?

Id leave sturridge and milner out. Sturridge is too much of a liability, having darren anderton as your injury cover aint smart. Milner always makes squads on versatility but no team containing him has a hoping hell of winning anything, so if you have to resort to playing him the battles already over.

[dino1980]

So Delph is out. Who are the other two you are leaving behind?

Townsend - think there are better game changers off the bench and think there are better starters in the positions he'd fill in our likely formations. Rashford goes ahead of him in my opinion.

A.Central.Midfielder - No idea which one I'd leave behind to be honest and Roy's going to get stick whoever it is. If everyone were 100% fit I'd be minded to leave Barkley behind, not on ability, but on the fact I just can't see him getting that many minutes given how we're likely to line up. But, one of Henderson or Wilshere, probably the former as we have similar players to him in Milner/Drinkwater.

[Mark_Porter]

Bertrand should start ahead of Rose. Has been far more reserved for Southampton going forward over the last 12 months and his defensive game has come on heaps. Think he is a significant improvement defensively on Rose.

Personally, would leave Rashford, Delph and Barkley.

[pleno1]

Drinkwater and Sturridge left out

[AndrewT]

Drinkwater and Sturridge left out

[George2Loose]

Deinkwater and Townsend

[Tal]

3 centre halves
1 DM who can cover at centre back
5 strikers
1 winger

What system is this?

Plus, given we have alli, rooney, sterling, wilshere, milner and lallana who've all played at 10 before at some point, why take Barkley?

[DungBeetle]

What a joke to leave out Drinkwater. Hodgson just taking his big club players even if they are unfit or injury prone.  Poor but unsurprising.

[arbboy]

What a joke to leave out Drinkwater. Hodgson just taking his big club players even if they are unfit or injury prone.  Poor but unsurprising.

Shawcross might as well retire from international football if Drinkwater can't get in after the season he has had.   Sends a terrible message to most players at non big clubs.