{"id":510128,"date":"2026-03-20T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510128"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:45:38","slug":"tuchel-axes-alexander-arnold-and-watkins-from-his-england-squad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tuchel-axes-alexander-arnold-and-watkins-from-his-england-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuchel axes Alexander-Arnold and Watkins from his England squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England boss Thomas Tuchel gave a press conference ahead of the international break and revealed that the March camp was &#8220;unique,&#8221; giving more footballers the opportunity to fight for their place during the stressful moment of their club campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The German head coach also revealed that 11 experienced footballers, such as Kane, Saka, and Rice, will join the team next weekend to prepare for the game against Japan and will miss the friendly with Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel also spoke about why he didn\u2019t call Trent and Ollie now: \u201cI already know what Ollie Watkins and Trent Alexander-Arnold can offer for England and wanted to give a chance to other footballers this camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas also shared with the reporters why he named the Red Devils duo Kobbie Mainoo and Harry Maguire in his squad: \u201cMan United had been fantastic since Michael Carrick became the manager, and Mainoo and Maguire have been crucial for the success of the Red Devils during that period. It\u2019s my final opportunity to get to know new footballers before the World Cup, and that\u2019s why I called them now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A selection of players who were not included in Thomas Tuchel&#39;s 35-man England squad for the friendlies against Uruguay and Japan:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Trent Alexander-Arnold<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Luke Shaw<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Ollie Watkins<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Danny Welbeck<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Jarrad Branthwaite<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Harvey Barnes<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Morgan Gibbs-White<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Conor\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ktMhkio5NX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ktMhkio5NX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/2034944386312642935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2026<\/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 boss Thomas Tuchel gave a press conference ahead of the international break and revealed that the March camp was &#8220;unique,&#8221; giving more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510129,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,18411],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,18412],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Three Lions coach didn\u2019t name the duo in his roster.","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\/510128"}],"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=510128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510130,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510128\/revisions\/510130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510128"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510128"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}