Leeds United internationals round up: Full shift for Kalvin Phillips but night off for Diego Llorente

KALVIN Phillips earned his fifth England cap by making his fourth start for the Three Lions in Thursday night's 5-0 cruise against minnows San Marino at Wembley.
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Phillips played as the sole holding midfielder in front of a back four as West Ham United's Declan Rice stayed on the bench in the first of three World Cup qualifiers for England in a week.

The Whites midfielder stayed on for the full duration of the game as a Dominic Calvert-Lewin brace plus goals from James Ward-Prowse, Raheem Sterling and Ollie Watkins easily brushed side the worst ranked nation in the world.

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Stuart Dallas and Gjanni Alioski also played the full duration of Thursday night's World Cup qualifiers for their respective nations.

FIFTH CAP: For Leeds United midfielder Kalvin Phillips, left, pictured during Thursday night's 5-0 victory against San Marino at Wembley. Photo by Adrian Dennis - Pool/Getty Images.FIFTH CAP: For Leeds United midfielder Kalvin Phillips, left, pictured during Thursday night's 5-0 victory against San Marino at Wembley. Photo by Adrian Dennis - Pool/Getty Images.
FIFTH CAP: For Leeds United midfielder Kalvin Phillips, left, pictured during Thursday night's 5-0 victory against San Marino at Wembley. Photo by Adrian Dennis - Pool/Getty Images.

Dallas and Northern Ireland lost 2-0 to Italy in Parma whilst Alioski and North Macedonia were outpointed 3-2 by Romania in Bucharest.

Diego Llorente was an unused substitute for Spain in their World Cup qualifier at home to Greece which ended in a 1-1 draw but Mateusz Klich was not involved for Poland in their qualifier in Hungary having tested positive but then negative for coronavirus on Wednesday. Poland and Hungary shared a 3-3 draw.

Illan Meslier was once again on the bench for France's under-21s as they faced Denmark in their first Under-21s Euros group stage game in Hungary which ended in a 1-0 reverse.

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Meslier has yet to play for France's under-21s for whom Nantes stopper Alban Lafont remains the no 1.

Helder Costa was not involved for his new national side Angola as they suffered a 1-0 defeat at Gambia in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

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