Gareth Southgate believes England face a more complicated build-up to the European Championship than any other nation as he juggled fixtures and fitness by naming a 33-man provisional squad.

With the Three Lions dealing with issues such as injuries and European final absentees, the Football Association confirmed a larger provisional group would be announced on Tuesday rather than the definitive squad.

Southgate has named a 33-man party that will be trimmed down to 26 players on June 1, allowing him to include injury doubts such as Harry Maguire, Jordan Henderson and Kalvin Phillips.

"There would be no point in bringing him if that wasn't a possibility. So in some regards he may be ahead of others. He's had a long period out, but he's had a high training load without the matches.

"Jack Grealish has had a long period out but played the matches, maybe hasn't had the intensity of the training. We've got to see how they respond to training with the group, what their recovery is like, what other issues that could throw up.

"Although they are heading in the right direction, it is not an ideal situation. We've got four of those with Kalvin and potentially Harry Maguire as well. We are just monitoring those really closely."