Southgate 'still spinning plates' - but who impressed against Bosnia?

England head Gareth Southgate has said he is "spinning a batch of plates" arsenic nan deadline to finalise his squad for Euro 2024 nears.

England play Iceland astatine Wembley connected Friday (19:45 BST) successful their last friends earlier nan tournament, aft which Southgate will corroborate nan 26-man group he will return to Germany.

Speaking astir his upcoming action aft Monday's 3-0 triumph complete Bosnia-Herzegovina, he said: "We understand nan value for each of nan players truthful we're giving it nan respect and attraction it deserves to make fair, correct decisions.

"Of course, it's ever going to beryllium subjective.

"It's not conscionable getting nan champion individuals in, there's a positional constituent to that arsenic well.

"We've sewage really bully options and I deliberation we've travel done coming without immoderate beingness issues, which is really important."

The England leader continued: "Some players needed nan game, they needed nan minutes and they request nan minutes again connected Friday. That's why we brought Harry Kane on. He needed immoderate lucifer clip coming and past to backmost that up.

"We're spinning a batch of plates trying to get individuals into things, negociate minutes, execute good and everything else, but I deliberation it was a bully nighttime for us."

In their penultimate warm-up lucifer earlier Euro 2024, second-half goals from Cole Palmer, Trent Alexander-Arnold and substitute Kane secured a regular triumph astatine St James' Park.

At Euro 2024, England are successful nan Group C pinch Denmark, Slovenia and Serbia - their first opponents successful Gelsenkirchen connected Sunday, 16 June.

Chelsea's Palmer and Crystal Palace's Eberechi Eze started arsenic portion of an inexperienced England line-up earlier being withdrawn aft an hr successful Newcastle.

"Cole linked nan crippled good for us," Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I thought he tried to beryllium a small excessively precise a mates of times connected finishes that, if he'd taken a small spot earlier, he mightiness person sewage his changeable away. But it was beautiful for him to get his first [England] goal.

"Eze played pinch that state and swagger that he plays for his nine with. It's awesome to spot a young subordinate travel into our situation and beryllium capable to do that.

"You saw that expertise to glide past group successful nan mediate of nan transportation and nan powerfulness he has arsenic well."

Meanwhile, Adam Wharton made a promising debut from nan chair and Southgate said of nan Palace midfielder: "He played arsenic he's trained. He receives well, he's very composed and he plays forward, which sounds elemental but is not a elemental point to do.

"He plays a batch of one-touch shot and tin spot a image erstwhile nan shot arrives pinch him. He's had a really bully fewer days pinch us."

Ex-Everton midfielder Leon Osman, moving arsenic a pundit connected BBC Radio 5 Live, said: "That is why they [Eze and Wharton] person sewage into nan squad, because of what they person done for their club.

"Eze is unique. He tin glide pinch nan shot and he tin hit 4 players astatine a time. There are not galore players that tin do that, they are nan types of players you request to unlock nan door.

"Wharton played pinch specified assurance successful a captious area of nan pitch."

Former England centre-back Jonathan Woodgate added: "It could beryllium down to nan Iceland crippled [for nan last squad selection].

"Gareth has an incredibly reliable determination connected who he takes, they are each outstanding players. Our squad extent is nan champion I person ever seen it."

Another England subordinate to impressment successful a cameo from nan chair was Manchester City winger Jack Grealish, who group up Alexander-Arnold's 2nd extremity pinch a floated transverse and besides had a manus successful nan 3rd scored by Kane from adjacent range.

Grealish played a reduced domiciled for Premier League champions City successful 2023-24, starting only 10 convention games, while he was an unused substitute successful their FA Cup last nonaccomplishment to neighbours Manchester United connected 25 May.

Competition for attacking places successful England's squad is highly fierce, but Southgate said aft Monday's win: "We cognize nan qualities he has. That's not successful immoderate mobility - he's a subordinate we emotion having pinch nan group."

Several contributors to BBC Sport's unrecorded matter sum suggested nan 28-year-old should beryllium named successful England's Euro 2024 squad, including:

Stuart Beal-Collins: What a walk by Grealish, that was sensational and we return him for granted. Has to beryllium connected nan plane.

AC Tcg: Jack Grealish gets successful nan squad each time long.

Steve: Top cameo from Jack Grealish, oozing quality. Would beryllium madness to time off him retired of nan Euro squad.