Former England international Martin Keown has told Gareth Southgate to revert to a three-man defence at the European Championship if Harry Maguire loses his fitness race. Southgate included Maguire in his 26-man squad for the finals despite the Manchester United defender’s struggles with an ankle injury suffered towards the end of the season. “Maguire is playing in an area on the pitch where we are developing players but we are short of players,” he said. “Both starters at centre-half, I only counted 12 caps between them before the Austria game so that was quite an inexperienced central defence. “If Maguire doesn’t make it then with the players Gareth has picked he should shift back to a back-three and he could do that to great success.

Source: Express June 04, 2021 14:03 UTC