Trent Alexander Arnold could be one of just two fit senior right-backs available for Gareth Southgate when he announces his World Cup squad on November 10.
The England manager will have been ironing out the finer details of his 26-man travelling party since the final round of Nations League games in September. Alexander-Arnold’s place in that squad has been under serious threat, with the Liverpool right-back an unused substitute against Italy before being dropped from the squad entirely against Germany.
But despite the 23-year-old enduring a torrid 45 minutes in the 3-2 defeat at Arsenal before being substituted off with an ankle problem - for which the diagnosis is around two weeks out - his chances at joining fellow Red Jordan Henderson on the plane have shot up, with recent news that Reece James faces a race to be fit for the tournament.
