With England set to play their final match ahead of the 2022 World Cup, it has become very apparent that there isn't a great deal of time left to impress to cement a place in Gareth Southgate's final squad, or perhaps starting XI. This international break has seen Mason Mount, Reece James, Raheem Sterling and Ben Chilwell from Chelsea involved with the England set-up for fixtures against Italy and Germany.
While the former trio have had fairly consistent involvement with England in recent seasons, Chilwell's place under Southgate has been more complex. The ex-Leicester City wing-back's injury record has not helped him keep a consistent place but Chilwell travelled to EURO2020 to not play a minute of England's campaign to the competition's final. Having to quarantine during the tournament of course, did not help.
That was off the back of form that saw Chilwell play an influential role as Chelsea won the Champions League but come September and the next international break, the 25-year-old was out of the England squad and only being slowly reintroduced to Chelsea's side by Thomas Tuchel.
