Under Tuchel, England have played a 4-3-3 system with wingers on each side of striker Kane.<\/p>\n
Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka is the first choice to play on the right, with either Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon or Barcelona’s Marcus Rashford on the left.<\/p>\n
It means there will be fierce competition for who plays behind Kane in the number 10 role, with a high-profile name potentially missing out on the World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
Tuchel mentioned Bellingham, Rogers and Foden as options at number 10, as well as Chelsea’s Cole Palmer, who currently has a groin injury, and Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White, who was left out of the latest squad. Arsenal’s Eberechi Eze is another candidate in the current squad.<\/p>\n
The German said it was very unlikely he would select five number 10s in his World Cup squad, adding: “I don’t see how this will help us.”<\/p>\n
He said anyone missing out will not be “because they don’t individually deserve it” but because he will “always do what’s best for winning”.<\/p>\n
“We will always do what’s best for balance and we will try to keep the clarity, even if it means that we have to take tough decisions,” he added.<\/p>\n
“We take tough decisions in any camp, and this will not change when we go to a tournament.”<\/p>\n
Tuchel did add he saw Foden as playing as a hybrid between an eight and a number 10 for City and so “maybe during the next months” he could be considered to play in a midfield role.<\/p>\n
England qualified for the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico with two games to spare.<\/p>\n
They host Serbia at Wembley on Thursday before a trip to Albania on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Rogers has impressed under Tuchel, starting five and featuring in all eight of the games the German has managed – though a hamstring niggle could give Bellingham the opportunity to start against Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under Tuchel, England have played a 4-3-3 system with wingers on each side of striker Kane. Arsenal forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-566330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115539070322113757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}