The young Liverpool defender was shocked to find Gareth Southgate sending him on from the bench against Germany in November but now he is firmly in World Cup squad contention
Joe Gomez barely had time to think. It had not even crossed his mind that Gareth Southgate would turn to him when Phil Jones went down injured in the 25th minute of England’s friendly against Germany in November. Gomez was sitting on the bench at Wembley but the Liverpool defender was a new face in the squad and assumed he was low on the list of candidates to replace Jones. “I thought it was going to be Michael Keane,” he says.
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