England can win the Euros - Southgate announces provisional squad
England manager Gareth Southgates goes into detail on his 33-man squad selection for the European Championship
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00:00 When you're putting this together, do you look at this and think, this is a squad that could win the Euros?
00:04 Yeah, I mean, of course, everybody's waiting for that headline.
00:07 I have to say, he's up against it. He's missed a lot of football.
00:21 The fact that he's been our first choice in that position, we're probably giving him a bit longer than we might have done.
00:28 And again, I'm not sure what's realistic at this moment in time.
00:33 Well, he'll be a miss, there's no question about that. He's an exceptional individual, fantastic human being.
00:45 And he's been in that leadership role since I took charge.
00:50 Equally, in the last game we played, we had a lot of our senior players missing. We made Declan captain, and him and one or two others.
01:00 With that space, I thought, really rose to that challenge. And that's what you hope to see and what we have to challenge other people to do.
01:08 Maybe there isn't quite that reliance on Harry Kane.
01:15 Yeah, I mean, not just Harry, Raheem as well was crucial in the last Euros, especially for getting the goals in big games.
01:25 So, we've shared that load a lot more. You can see across that forward line the number of goals they've scored for their clubs this year, but also then for us.
01:35 People like Bukayo have weighed in with a lot of goals for us as well.
01:43 Do you feel a bit cheated by the fact that you can't...
01:46 What's the point of worrying about what I can't affect? The job is to adjust, adapt, find the best way, work with the players we've got.
01:57 We've got good players in the squad. That's heartbreaking for players when it's physical issues that pretty much keeps them out.
02:06 But as a coach, you've got to find ways of winning with whatever team you've got.
02:13 Would you be an idiot if you said no?
02:16 I'd be an idiot if I said no. And equally, if I say yes, that doesn't mean there's a hell of a lot of work ahead of us.
02:24 So, there's no doubt what's possible. The team have been very close already, so they know what's possible.
02:33 They know what they've won at club level and what that's taken. You're being judged and have to deliver on those moments.
02:42 But are we one of those teams that can win, of which there are a few? Yeah, absolutely.
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