Tyrick Mitchell says he didn’t expect to get a senior England call-up so quickly after he was drafted into Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions squad on Monday afternoon.
The 22-year-old full-back was named as one four new inclusions to the squad, with Chelsea’s Reece James and Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold among those who dropped out for upcoming friendlies against Switzerland and Ivory Coast at Wembley.
Mitchell has been on Southgate’s radar for some time and looked to have missed out on his chance to impress when the initial squad was named last week, with Palace teammates Conor Gallagher and Marc Guehi included ahead of him. That changed on Monday though as England announced their changes to the squad, with Mitchell winning his first call-up for the side along with Southampton’s Kyle Walker-Peters.
