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When England’s squad for the international break was announced last week there was shock over a few individual exclusions. One of which was Wolves’ Conor Coady.
The centre-back has been terrific for Nuno Santo’s team in 2018/19, but Gareth Southgate failed to find room for him in his England squad. However, the reasoning behind it has now been given with the 48-year-old Three Lions boss suggesting that it would be difficult to move him into a four-man defence.
Wolves’ foundations this season have been built on a three-man backline and although England deployed the same system at the World Cup, they’ve now reverted to a more traditional defensive set up.
Some supporters of the club feel as though Southgate’s reasoning makes perfect sense and is a fair judgement, with one fan even claiming he’d get destroyed if he was to play in England’s system. Another said it was lousy timing for the central defender that the national team now plays in a different way.
There was a split opinion, though, as some fans argued that despite a change in the system, Coady is far better than the likes of James Tarkowski and Michael Keane who are among the squad.
Although playing in a different position, the late call up of Callum Hudson-Odoi was also brought into question.
Here’s what the Molineux faithful have been saying on Twitter.
