England U21s Call For Gray & Chilwell

- The young Lions face Kazakhstan and Bosnia and Herzegovina in two UEFA Euro U21 Championship qualifiers next month 

- England Under-21s currently sit top of qualifying Group 9 

Leicester City’s Demarai Gray and Ben Chilwell have been named in the 22-man England Under-21s squad for their upcoming UEFA Euro U21 Championship qualifiers. 

Gray has featured six times in all competitions for the Foxes this term, netting his first goal with a stunning strike for the Club at Old Trafford earlier this month, while Chilwell played 120 minutes in the EFL Cup against Chelsea. 

Now, Gray and Chilwell will hope to impress for the young Lions in their final two Euro U21 qualifiers against Kazakhstan in Aktobe on Thursday 6 October (4pm kick-off BST) and Bosnia and Herzegovina at Walsall’s Banks’s Stadium on Tuesday 11 October (3pm kick-off). 

England Under-21s currently sit top of qualifying Group 9, two points ahead of second-placed Switzerland. 

The full England Under-21s squad to face Kazakhstan and Bosnia and Herzegovina is as follows: 

Goalkeepers 

Jonathan Mitchell (Derby County), Jordan Pickford (Sunderland), Freddie Woodman (Newcastle United) 

Defenders 

Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough, loan from Arsenal), Ben Chilwell (Leicester City), Brendan Galloway (West Bromwich Albion, loan from Everton), Rob Holding (Arsenal), Mason Holgate (Everton), Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Matt Targett (Southampton) 

Midfielders 

Lewis Baker (Vitesse Arnhem, loan from Chelsea), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea), Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United), Will Hughes (Derby County), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea), John Swift (Reading), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) 

Forwards 

Tammy Abraham (Bristol City, loan from Chelsea), Demarai Gray (Leicester City), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa), Nathan Redmond (Southampton), Duncan Watmore (Sunderland).