No one expected Bukayo Saka to play at Euro 2020 - is England's 'slippery eel' now undroppable?

Bukayo Saka
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Kick-off was still more than six hours away, but already bafflement was sweeping across much of England. Gareth Southgate's team to face the Czech Republic in the last Euro 2020 group game had started to leak out in the press, and one name was taking people by surprise.

"Saka? Over Rashford, Sancho and Foden... are you kidding me?!" one responded online. "Southgate has well and truly lost it," another wrote.

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Chris Flanagan
Senior Staff Writer

Chris joined FourFourTwo in 2015 and has reported from more than 20 countries, in places as varied as Ivory Coast and the Arctic Circle. He's interviewed Pele, Zlatan and Santa Claus (it's a long story), as well as covering the World Cup, AFCON and the Clasico. He previously spent 10 years as a newspaper journalist, and completed the 92 in 2017.