The best England XI to miss out on the Euros - and why they failed to make the cut Telegraph Sport assesses who was unlucky to miss out on the squad and the reasons they were overlooked 1 June 2021 • 5:31pm It says a lot about the gradual improvement in the quality of English players in the Premier League that a team made up entirely of players who have not made the squad for the European Championships looks strong on paper. Not as good as the one that will face Croatia in England’s opening group game, obviously, but this is a pretty decent starting XI and shows, after years of falling numbers, that the pool of players available to Gareth Southgate looks more impressive than it has done for years.