Luke Shaw won the last of his 34 England caps in the Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain.<\/p>\n
That the Manchester United full-back missed the vast majority of the 2024-25 season through injury – featuring in only seven league games – has certainly not helped his cause.<\/p>\n
In his absence, Lewis Hall and Nico O’Reilly have emerged as strong options at left-back while Myles Lewis-Skelly also impressed when given an opportunity.<\/p>\n
However, with Shaw back to fitness and, crucially for a player who has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, has managed to remain available throughout the season, starting every league game for United.<\/p>\n
His smartly-taken goal – his first in the Premier League since January 2023 – against Nottingham Forest was a timely reminder of the former Southampton man’s quality.<\/p>\n
After such a long time out of the picture, a recall for Shaw would be something of a surprise but having played a key role in helping England to two major tournament finals, that sort of experience might be very appealing to Tuchel.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t got much sway in the matter at all, but I certainly think so,” United boss Carrick said when asked if Shaw deserved an international recall.<\/p>\n
“Again, the consistency, just what he’s capable of doing. The performance, the experience, his strengths, his attributes that he’s got.<\/p>\n
“He’s a fantastic full-back. I think between them, I think [Shaw, Kobbie Mainoo and Harry Maguire] have done their chances no harm recently for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Shaw won the last of his 34 England caps in the Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-967326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116591917992599927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967326","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=967326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}