England manager Gareth Southgate has cooled talk of a central midfield role for Manchester City's Phil Foden.

Foden has admitted he sees himself as a centre midfielder in the future.

But Southgate says: "He doesn't [play centrally] for his club, so presumably there's a reason for that.

"You'd have to speak with Pep [Guardiola], the best coach in the world, who plays him from wide. He's always got the freedom to drift if we play him wide and that's important. It depends on the level of the game, really."

He added: "Obviously in the middle of the park everybody wants to talk about them with the ball, but there's a lot of detail without the ball.

"In games like at the weekend [against Ukraine], you're playing opponents that are so clever with their passing and movement that you've really got to be spot on with pressing angles, your responsibilities.

"If you don't, then you don't have the flow of the game, you don't get the flow of the game."