A few eyebrows were certainly raised when Danny Welbeck was included in Gareth Southgate's latest England squad. While the Arsenal forward's goalscoring record at international level – 15 goals in 36 games – is tough to dispute, a whopping 18 English players have scored more times than him in the Premier League this season, including Glenn Murray, Troy Deeney and Callum Wilson who were all left out of the 27-man squad. But Welbeck timed his defiance of critics perfectly on Thursday night, just hours after Southgate's squad announcement, with a match-winning brace in the second leg of Arsenal's Europa League clash against AC Milan to book the north London outfit a place in the...
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