{"id":165264,"date":"2024-03-25T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/gareth-southgate-admits-frustration-over-trent-alexander-arnolds-current-injury\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:14:01","slug":"gareth-southgate-admits-frustration-over-trent-alexander-arnolds-current-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/gareth-southgate-admits-frustration-over-trent-alexander-arnolds-current-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Southgate admits frustration over Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s current injury \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>England manager Gareth Southgate has admitted his frustration at not being able to continue testing Trent Alexander-Arnold in a midfield role during the March international break.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0star has been unavailable for selection for the Three Lions\u2019 friendlies against both Brazil and Belgium this week due to a knee injury, with\u00a0Alexander-Arnold\u00a0being set to return to action after the international break after over a month out of action.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a right-back at club level, Southgate successfully played Alexander-Arnold in midfield during the November 2023 international break and had been keen to experiment further with this position change ahead of the Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01hststwpxpdmwc4nphv.jpg\" alt=\"Trent Alexander-Arnold\" title=\"Trent Alexander-Arnold\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Alexander-Arnold is currently injured \/ Julian Finney\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Speaking to the press ahead of the friendly meeting with Belgium at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday evening, Southgate admitted that he was frustrated by the \u201cmissed opportunities\u201d to give Alexander-Arnold more minutes in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe midfield thing we\u2019ve seen, but we\u2019ve missed two opportunities with September and now this one that is really frustrating because there\u2019s so much that\u2019s unknown about it at the minute,\u201d Southgate said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, I\u2019ve liked the idea for a long time but we\u2019re going to be trialling it when we haven\u2019t seen it in a really high level game. So we\u2019ll just have to see where we can go with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a specialist position. There\u2019s a huge difference between playing at full-back and popping into midfield and playing in there, starting in there, in and out of position in the game, eceiving with your back to goal \u2013 there\u2019s a lot to that. We\u2019re just going to have to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Southgate will have just one more window to play Alexander-Arnold alongside Declan Rice and Jude Bellingham in the England midfield before heading off to Germany for Euro 2024 \u2013 friendlies against Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina and Iceland in early June.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England manager Gareth Southgate has admitted his frustration at not being able to continue testing Trent Alexander-Arnold in a midfield role during the March international break. 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