{"id":464923,"date":"2023-10-05T19:07:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464923"},"modified":"2023-10-05T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:07:32","slug":"southgate-recalls-watkins-to-england-squad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/southgate-recalls-watkins-to-england-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Southgate recalls Watkins to England squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England head coach Gareth Southgate has recalled Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins for October\u2019s matches vs. Australia and Italy at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins, who was called for the last time in March 2022, continued his impressive campaign, beginning with a hattrick vs. Brighton during the past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea winger Raheem Sterling is left out of a 4<sup>th<\/sup> successive roster.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham attacker Jarrod Bowen returns after missing out on last month\u2019s games vs. Ukraine and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions will face Australia in a friendly on 13 October and Italy in qualification for the European Championship next year 4 days later.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie shared he did not think he could &#8220;do anymore&#8221; to earn a place in Southgate\u2019s squad after scoring 7 goals and giving 3 assists in 11 matches this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watkins has become a better player under Aston Villa\u2019s manager Unai Emery,&#8221; Southgate claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jarrod Bowen and Ollie Watkins are back in England\u2019s squad for their upcoming games following their recent Premier League form:<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude04\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb:<br \/>\n7 games<br \/>\n5 goals<br \/>\n1 assist<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\uddea\ud835\uddee\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude00:<br \/>\n7 games<br \/>\n4 goals<br \/>\n3 assists<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca5\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bWQYYsCv25\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bWQYYsCv25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1709922593245962628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England head coach Gareth Southgate has recalled Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins for October\u2019s matches vs. Australia and Italy at Wembley. Watkins, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464924,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,19612,21092],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,19613,21094],"acf":{"announce":"Gareth decided to recall Ollie.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464931,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464923\/revisions\/464931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464923"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464923"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}