Tammy Abraham & Fikayo Tomori Gets England Call Up

Tammy Abraham & Fikayo Tomori Gets England Call Up By Omolagba Oluwayemi AS Roma of Italy forward, Tammy Abraham has been handed a call up to the English national team, BSNSports.com.ng reports. This is the first time England manager Gareth Southgate has picked Abraham since November 2020. His selections for the national team became sparse after he was gradually fazed out of the Chelsea line-up by Thomas Tuchel once he arrived at the club last season. In total, he has made six appearances for the national team, scoring one goal – the last in a 7-0 win against Montenegro in November 2019. His debut came a year earlier in a goalless draw at home to Germany. Abraham has scored four goals in 10 appearances since joining Roma from Chelsea in the summer. The 24-year-old is an addition to the 23-man squad named by Southgate on Thursday, which features strikers Harry Kane and Ollie Watkins, plus forwards Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho, Raheem Sterling and Jack Grealish. Abraham was last selected by Southgate in November 2020, while he has six international caps and one goal to his name since making his senior debut in 2017. He will join up with Southgate and the rest of the team at St. George's Park on Tuesday. Also making a return to the English national team is AC Milan defender Fikayo Tomori, Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins as well as Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, who was a late call-up to the Euro 2020 squad after Dean Henderson went home injured. Tomori has made a solitary appearance for England, which came in 2019 when he was playing regularly for Chelsea under Frank Lampard. England play their seventh and eighth matches of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in this international break. They travel to Andorra on Saturday, October 9 with kick-off at 7.45pm, before returning to Wembley to host Hungary on Tuesday, October 12 with the same kick-off time.