England v Switzerland LIVE: Line-ups and teams as Saka and Trippier take new roles for Euro 2024 quarter-final

Aston Villa’s Ezri Konsa has been brought into the starting XI for England replacing Marc Guehi in defence and spoke about his involvement.

“It’s always been a dream of mine, as a kid growing up watching the Euros and the World Cup,” he said. “I wanted to be involved myself and play a big part.

“I’m ready, no matter what. It’s a shame Marc is suspended; he’s been outstanding for us in that back four. But, look, whatever the manager decides – if I play, if I don’t play – I’ll always be ready.”

Gareth Southgate is potentially switching things up for England despite their only being one change from the line-up that faced Slovakia in the round of 16. Marc Guehi is suspended so his replacement is Ezri Konsa.

That means England will either continue with their 4-2-3-1 formation and use Konsa as a direct replacement for Guehi or, as has been reported previously, they will switch to a back three of Konsa, John Stones and Kyle Walker with Kieran Trippier and Bukayo Saka playing as wingbacks in a 3-4-3 formation.

For Switzerland, manager Murat Yakin names the same starting XI that defeated Italy so easily in their last outing. This could be a tough one for the Three Lions.

England XI: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Konsa; Trippier, Rice, Mainoo, Saka; Bellingham, Foden; Kane

Switzerland XI: Sommer; Schar, Akanji, Rodriguez; Rieder, Freuler, Xhaka, Aebischer; Vargas, Ndoye, Embolo

“We’re not concerned that he would break down but there’s obviously a decision regarding match sharpness and how quickly you can adjust back into that intensity of the cauldron of the tournament.

“But we’re happy with his progress, his commitment to do that. There’s been some difficult days for him on his own through the last few weeks.

“Some great work by our medical and physical performances teams and I’m really pleased for him that he’s now an option for us. That balance is something that has been difficult for us.”

Luke Shaw is finally able to make his first appearance of the tournament – and play his first game for anyone since February – when England face Switzerland in Saturday’s quarter-final in Dusseldorf and Gareth Southgate insisted he is not worried the Manchester United player will break down.

“With Luke we initially thought third group game, first knockout game,” he said. “That then looked like it might accelerate a bit, but we probably ended up sort of in the territory we thought we might be and given we had 26 we were happy to take that risk.

“We feel he can play a part now, and we’re still focused on being here for another 10 days. How much that part can be, who knows?

“But as we’ve seen in the tournament with the impact our substitutions have made, then, you know, five minutes, 30 minutes, 90 minutes, could be critical at any point. I’m pleased we’ve got him here because he’s unique in terms of the attributes he’s got for the position that he plays.”

Football fans are arriving at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf as England prepares to take on Switzerland in the quarter-final of Euro 20204.

The match marks Gareth Southgate’s 100th game as manager, and could mark a change in tactics for England, who have so far struggled to make an impact in the tournament.

Turkey defender Merih Demiral has been banned for two games by Uefa following a gesture he made during his side’s last-16 win against Austria on Tuesday and will miss Saturday’s Euro 2024 quarter-final against Netherlands.

The 26-year-old centre back scored twice in a 2-1 win over the Austrians to send his side into the last eight for the first time since 2008, and celebrated by making a “wolf” gesture with his fingers.

The gesture is linked to the “Grey Wolves”, an ultra-nationalist youth branch of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which is an ally of President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party.

“I think it’s a common-sense decision. Clearly it’s an unprecedented moment in someone’s life to score a goal like that in the 96th minute. I don’t know how I’d have reacted in that moment if that was me, at his age as well.

“I’m just so mindful of everything he’s achieving and the spotlight on his world and at that age – or any age – nobody is going to be perfect so at 21 you are at times going to react emotionally and without that emotion I don’t think you have the type of player he is, so I think he actually deals with everything so well.”

Gareth Southgate feels it is a “common-sense” decision not to suspend Jude Bellingham for his crotch-grabbing celebration against Slovakia and insisted the midfielder shows great maturity in how he reacts to his eventful life.

England manager Southgate feels the Real Madrid footballer would be a lesser player if he did not act with such emotion and believes Uefa were right not to opt for a more severe punishment.

Like too many of his international teammates, Declan Rice has not been at his very best level at Euro 2024. Too few times has he been able to surge forward in possession. He’s winning fewer duels per 90 minutes, has been successful in fewer aerial challenges and has been dispossessed more often in Germany than he did during the Premier League season with Arsenal.

Of course, there’s another difference, too, which makes the above comparisons both eye-opening and irrelevant all at once: he’s not playing the same role for England as he does for the Gunners, so why would he achieve the same things?

Indeed, that seems to be a theme this summer in the Three Lions’ camp. Kieran Trippier and Trent Alexander-Arnold were both right-back all year for their clubs, if in different ways. Neither are with England. Phil Foden is playing on the opposite flank. Ezri Konsa’s only minutes so far have come in the one back line position he doesnt play.

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