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4.45pm BST

Here’s another snippet of Southgate on today’s line-up:

Clearly no Kane no Stirling is a big loss, but it’s a big opportunity for others and this is the type of test we need. We know the quality they’ve got, we know most of their players, this is a really good challenge to match up against their system, and I’m looking forward to seeing how we go.

We feel this is a game for our experienced players to really match up, see where we’re at. We’ve got a lot of players who two years ago were less experienced, hadn’t experienced those big matches, hadn’t won things with their clubs, but had a great mentality and spirit among them. We’ve still got a lot of youngsters, but it’s a team that’s focused and ready for today’s game.

4.43pm BST

Here’s Gareth Southgate on Harry Kane, who starts today’s game on the bench:

He’s had a strange training week. We gave him a couple of days’ recovery after Sunday. He started training on Wednesday, had a big of what he felt was cramp, so he’s had muscle fatigue basically. Missed most of the week’s training, got a little bit more confident in it towards the end of the week but hasn’t really done enough on the field to start. So he’s not injured, he’s there perhaps for later in the game, but that’s the situation. He seems confident in how he feels, but he hasn’t had a lot of training time on the pitch this week.

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source: theguardian.com