England manager, Gareth Southgate, has added Harry Maguire and Jordan Henderson to his latest squad.
The coach has also defended the decision.
Maguire has been shunted even further down the pecking order at Manchester United.
The Red Devils defender is yet to play a single minute of competitive action this season.
“With Harry Maguire, we’ve lost a lot of experienced players in terms of caps at centre-half so we’re giving some less experienced players to come into the squad,” Southgate explained to the press on Thursday.
“But unfortunately it looks like Tyrone [Mings] is out for most of the season, John Stones is out for this camp, Eric Dier hasn’t appeared in Tottenham’s squad.
“So if I’m looking at all the players we’ve given caps to in the last few years, Conor Coady is also out and playing in the Championship now.
“So there is a space there and I think for these two games it’s important we have some experience in that area of the pitch.
“Clearly with Harry and with Kalvin Phillips it’s far from ideal that they’re not playing football but, similarly with Kalvin, I think Declan Rice was the only English player to start at the weekend as a single pivot. Kalvin is the next best positioned to do that.”
On Henderson, he added, “We’ve watched every game the key as we move forward will be intensity of the league because of the heat
“As well as the performance level we need to clearly monitor the level of the league, we’re assessing it and it’s changing all the time.”
