I also don't see where Grealish fits in, yes he is talented, but how he plays doesn't fit in with how the other players play at their best for their clubs, it's worse than the Gerrard/Lampard England debacle, in which is was clear that Gerrard should have played as a No10 in the team England had back then, and no matter how good Lampard's club form was, he should have been second choice behind Gerrard for that role and to make England's best side, you couldn't play both of them.
Southgate isn't using his best players in their best positions and for me, he wants to include Grealish as he gave him the No7 shirt to make that pretty clear, and that's also why he's trying to play the 4231 that is nothing like the best system for the rest of the players
For me, players in their best positions in order of who should start from left to right (I'm including Trent)
Henderson/Prickford
Trent/James/Trippier/Walker Stones Maguire/Mings Chilwell/Shaw
Rice/Henderson/Bellingham Henderson/Phillips/Rice Mount/Foden/Bellingham
Sancho/Foden/Sterling Kane/Mount/Foden Foden/Sterling/Rashford
The other players should just be subs to try something different if England are chasing the game, I went for henderson as keeper because he's a very good keeper and has better distribution than Prickford, I think Prickford probably edges it on the keeping front, but only just, but his Everton long ball distribution simply isn't good enough
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