Southgate talks Saka, Watkins, Sterling and more...

England manager Gareth Southgate has announced his squad to play Australia and Italy in October

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00:00 Obviously he limped off for Arsenal in his last game, what's your understanding of his

00:15 fitness?

00:16 He's still being assessed, so obviously they've got a big game this weekend and then there's

00:25 another seven days before we play Australia and ten days before we play Italy as well,

00:32 so everybody will monitor everything as we go forward.

00:38 Oli has started the season well, he's hit a bit of scoring form in the last couple of

00:47 weeks, you have to be careful with that because you can't just go on recency bias when you're

00:53 looking at selection, but he is in good form, he's obviously coming in on a high and he's

01:00 been with us before, we know his character, we know his personality, he's a good guy around

01:04 the group.

01:05 The team are playing well, he's playing for a club that are really well coached and the

01:11 team are in a good moment.

01:12 The last time you left him out you said to us that you personally spoke to him, did you

01:21 say the same again this time and if so what did you say?

01:25 We spoke before the last squad, as I said we've been happy with the wide players and

01:31 the performances in the last four games in particular.

01:35 We have added Jarrod Bowen in those wide areas, he's scored five in seven games, he's playing

01:41 really well and with the Australia game as well there's an opportunity to learn some

01:47 different things as well.

01:48 It's clearly a joint bid with all the other home nations, so brilliant for everybody if

01:59 that opportunity arises, there's still a little bit to do I think.

02:04 But I think all the nations are fantastic football nations, huge pride, they'll have

02:12 huge pride in hosting and if the teams get qualified as well then there's obviously some

02:20 home advantage to hosting as well.

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