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Kieran Trippier went head-to-head with rival Trent Alexander-Arnold and their different qualities offer encouragement to England boss Gareth Southgate

Who knows what the state of the sporting calendar will be come the summer. At this rate, by the time the next few months have ticked around, Gareth Southgate is likely to be more preoccupied with stockpiling tins of John West salmon and scrapping for bog roll than assembling a squad for European Championship glory.

If, by either chance or social distancing, international competition is running by then, the England manager will have his own, different, slightly more tactical problems to solve.

There are few positions in which England are blooming more right now than at right-back.