While Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier and Callum Wilson saw their England World Cup dreams ended by France on Saturday night, Newcastle United will have been relieved to see their Qatar contingent escape uninjured ahead of the Premier League restart.
The England trio, Bruno Guimaraes, Fabian Schar and youngster Garang Kuol were the six players Newcastle sent to the World Cup, with all of them, bar Kuol, set to return to Tyneside following their recent tournament exits.
While Schar and Switzerland had their campaign ended by a rampant Portugal in the round of 16 6-1, England and Guimaraes' Brazil suffered agonising quarterfinal defeats to France and Croatia respectively.
