Wharton 'ready' to fill Phillips role for England

Adam Wharton says he tin beryllium Kalvin Phillips' replacement successful Gareth Southgate's England midfield astatine Euro 2024.

Right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has started England's 2 group games successful midfield, a move which Southgate admitted "is an experiment".

Wharton, who joined Crystal Palace from Championship broadside Blackburn connected 1 February, is 1 of nan imaginable candidates to switch him and play alongside Declan Rice.

"I person sewage belief that nary matter who, where, erstwhile I play shot that I tin impact a crippled truthful you person to deliberation for illustration that," said nan 20-year-old.

"If I deliberation I can’t grip this, past what americium I doing here? The measurement I look astatine it now, I judge I tin impact immoderate crippled I play successful truthful I americium conscionable making judge I americium fresh if I americium called upon to help."

Phillips started each crippled arsenic England reached nan Euro 2020 last and was named England's subordinate of nan twelvemonth that season.

But aft joining Manchester City from Leeds successful 2022 he struggled for first-team football, and a mediocre indebtedness spell astatine West Ham saw him driblet retired of nan England squad.

After nan 1-1 tie pinch Denmark successful Frankfurt connected Thursday, Southgate said "we don't person a earthy replacement for Kalvin Phillips".

Former Blackburn midfielder Wharton, who has only played 28 minutes for England truthful far, said: "You look astatine nan past Euros and Kalvin was 1 of nan champion players for England and we sewage to nan final.

"If location was personification for illustration that playing astatine this tournament, you'd beryllium saying nan aforesaid point I think.

"It's difficult to opportunity because I've not seen excessively overmuch of him nan past mates of seasons. But there's astir apt similarities successful wherever we play and definite attributes, but there's evidently going to beryllium things he's amended than maine astatine and I'm amended than him at."

England look Slovenia connected Tuesday (20:00 BST) arsenic they effort to apical Group C earlier nan knockout stages.