Tuchel's selection dilemmas - and who would you pick?

There are conscionable 369 days to spell until nan 2026 World Cup successful Canada, Mexico and nan United States.

England's adjacent measurement successful their bid for glory is simply a qualifier against Andorra connected Saturday, past they play a friends against Senegal connected Tuesday.

Boss Thomas Tuchel has taken his squad to Spain for a training campy earlier nan matches arsenic he looks to maximise nan magnitude of days he has pinch his players successful his effort to lead England to World Cup glory adjacent year.

The Three Lions won their opening 2 World Cup qualifying games nether Tuchel against Albania and Latvia and beryllium apical of nan Group K table.

But including nan existent world window, location are conscionable 5 camps for Tuchel to nail down his first prime XI and instrumentality a style of play - and he is keen to determine connected his preferred XI arsenic soon arsenic possible.

While nan likes of Harry Kane, Jordan Pickford, Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka look safe bets to commencement adjacent summer, location are plentifulness of positions pinch large mobility marks still hanging complete them.

BBC Sport looks astatine which places successful nan squad are apt still disposable for a subordinate to make their own.

The mostly of England's cardinal midfield picks itself. The mobility is who is going to beryllium nan 3rd subordinate to subordinate Bellingham and Rice if Tuchel continues to play pinch nan 4-2-3-1 statement he utilized successful his first 2 games?

Liverpool's Curtis Jones started successful a deeper domiciled successful nan first crippled against Albania earlier Morgan Rogers was fixed nan chance successful a much precocious role, akin to nan 1 he plays successful astatine nine broadside Aston Villa, successful nan triumph complete Latvia.

Many thought Adam Wharton, aft Crystal Palace's occurrence successful nan FA Cup and his spending clip training pinch nan England elder team, would beryllium nan subordinate to complement nan duo.

But Wharton was named successful nan U21s again by Lee Carsley for their U21 European Championship and has since pulled retired pinch a aesculapian issue.

Tuchel has said he likes nan physicality of nan English crippled and his sides person featured players who are some beingness and powerful runners.

Conor Gallagher has been called up this clip aft missing retired connected Tuchel's first squad and is now playing successful a deeper domiciled astatine times for Atletico Madrid.

Gallagher is successful nan midfielder bracket, alongside Jordan Henderson and Jones, arsenic players who could play deeper for Tuchel, allowing Bellingham to play much advanced.

Myles Lewis-Skelly has surgery into nan world set-up and nan measurement he inverts into midfield from left-back intends that he tin beryllium an action while England are successful possession and could let Bellingham to person a deeper starting position, truthful Tuchel could fresh different forward-thinking subordinate successful his team.

Playing Bellingham successful a deeper domiciled would accommodate Cole Palmer aliases Rogers arsenic nan number 10, thing he did successful nan 3-0 triumph complete Latvia.

The truth that John Stones was successful Spain pinch nan England squad for a mates of days contempt his wounded issues and deficiency of crippled clip for Manchester City shows he is nether information by Tuchel.

Trevoh Chalobah has besides been called up arsenic a left-sided centre-back by Tuchel and nan England head knows nan 25-year-old well, having fixed him his Premier League debut astatine Chelsea.

Aston Villa's Ezri Konsa has impressed since breaking into nan world set-up and nan right-sided centre-back slot seems to beryllium his astatine nan moment.

That leaves a conflict for nan left-sided centre-back position betwixt Dan Burn, Levi Colwill, Marc Guehi and now Chalobah.

Harry Maguire, specified a cardinal subordinate for England successful erstwhile awesome tournaments, seems to person a agelong measurement to spell to conflict his measurement backmost successful arsenic Tuchel has antecedently said that Chalobah is up of him.

The left-back slot has been a problem position for England successful nan past and Luke Shaw was taken to Euro 2024 by Gareth Southgate arsenic nan only earthy subordinate for that position contempt not being fit.

Lewis-Skelly continued his fantabulous breakthrough play astatine Arsenal and scored connected his England debut, looking exceptionally comfortable astatine world level.

Lewis-Skelly, arsenic mentioned, besides gives Tuchel different limb by being capable to measurement into midfield which has nan imaginable to free Jude Bellingham up.

Lewis Hall had been successful bully shape for Newcastle United but picked up an wounded and misses nan 2 games against Andorra and Senegal.

He's been referenced by Tuchel arsenic personification he would for illustration to look astatine and nan England head besides said astir really Shaw's return to fittingness could beryllium important for England going forward.

The right-back domiciled appears a straightforward conflict betwixt Chelsea's Reece James, Real Madrid's Trent Alexander-Arnold and Manchester City's Kyle Walker.

Nobody has been capable to make left-wing their ain for a fewer years now.

At nan Euros past summertime Southgate tried Phil Foden and astatine times Bellingham successful that domiciled arsenic he looked for an answer.

Marcus Rashford had been nan go-to subordinate but shape and fittingness meant he was not included connected nan world set-up for a twelvemonth earlier Tuchel recalled him successful March.

But again, wounded intends Rashford is not included successful this squad.

Newcastle's Anthony Gordon is successful nan squad but his shape has dipped for his nine broadside and location is besides a spot for FA Cup Winner Eberechi Eze.

Eze scored his first England extremity past period for Tuchel and nan England head is simply a instrumentality of nan Palace forward.

He was successful fantabulous shape astatine nan backmost extremity of nan season, scoring 7 goals successful his last 8 games of nan season, including nan victor successful nan cup final.

Eze could person a bully chance astatine making nan left-wing spot his ain and successful world football, timing is everything.

Harry Kane's spot arsenic nan starting striker is astir apt nan astir unafraid arsenic England caput into nan 12-month countdown earlier nan World Cup.

Ollie Watkins had taken connected nan situation of being Kane's lawman and scored a melodramatic victor successful nan semi-final of Euro 2024 to return England to nan final.

However, he is simply a very different type of subordinate to Kane and Tuchel has opted to springiness a astonishment callback to striker Ivan Toney.

Tuchel said astir Toney's awesome scoring grounds successful Saudi Arabia of 30 goals successful 44 games successful each competitions and nan truth he won nan Asian Champions League.

Toney is astir akin to Kane successful that he gives nan attackers astir him a focal constituent to play nan shot into and is besides an elite punishment taker, which could beryllium important for nan knockout games.