Leeds United players at Euro 2020
13 June Kalvin Phillips put in a Man of the Match performance against Crotia. He made an assist when he dribbled past two players before passing an angled through ball to Raheem Sterling. Wembley Kalvin Phillips (CM): Justified his selection. Almost scored and injected urgency with a run to create the opener. 8 (motm) This time last year Kalvin Phillips was a virtual unknown playing in the Championship with Leeds. But Southgate had already spotted something there: not simply a willing engine and a sound technical base but that rarest of qualities in the English midfielder. Unlike many players who like time and space on the ball – and instinctively, who doesn’t? – Phillips seems to prefer it when the midfield is packed to suffocation, when the breath is hot on his neck when the margins are at their finest and the tackles are snapping in from all directions. Phillips does not have the passing range of a Jordan Henderson or the immaculate reading of a Declan Rice or the effortl...
