The Three Lions, whose World Cup campaign begins on June 18, trained on Thursday afternoon in the gloomy conditions and were put through their paces by England manager Southgate.
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The 27-year-old Arsenal FC striker is now keen to make an impact in next month’s World Cup in Russia.
They look to avoid a familiar fate of being knocked out of a major competition on spot kicks, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has said.
Southgate, who worked with 16 of the 23 selected at Burton this week, wanted to make the most of his time with the players as he looks to keep them ticking over ahead of their first of two warm-up matches against Nigeria on June 2 before their World Cup campaign kicks-off against Tunisia 16 days later.
The announcement was made in a video published on Twitter.
Gareth Southgate omitted the 31-year-old from his 23-man travelling party on this week in favour of Burnley’s Nick Pope despite Hart playing in all 10 qualifiers and featuring in March’s friendly get-together against Holland and Italy.
Experienced goalkeeper, Joe Hart, was left out of the squad for Russia, as was Arsenal midfielder, Jack Wilshere, who between them have been capped more than 100 times.
World governing body FIFA has set June 4 as the date when all final squads for the tournament must be submitted.
Spurs trailed heading into the closing stages of the first half after Alvaro Morata capitalised on a Hugo Lloris error to nod his side in front.
The decision comes after Russia ignored a deadline set by May to explain a nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal in Salisbury
The England manager said: “We’re going into a World Cup where we will play African and Central American opposition, so we get that with the games against Nigeria and Costa Rica, but it’s not just about the games we’ve got in the group but hopefully beyond that as well.
Both nations will feature at next year’s World Cup in Russia, with Nigeria drawn in Group D along with Argentina, Croatia and Iceland, while Gareth Southgate’s side will play Belgium, Panama and Tunisia in Group G.
Abraham is one of three uncapped players called into Gareth Southgate’s squad for the double-header against the top two ranked teams in the world.
Alli was not named in Tottenham’s squad for Sunday’s English Premier League game against basement side Crystal Palace, which they struggled to win 1-0.
Abraham and Loftus-Cheek, who are both Chelsea players out on loan at Swansea City and Crystal Palace respectively, have broken into the Gareth Southgate’s senior squad.
Allardyce became England manager in July 2016 and was sacked by the FA after two months for behaving “inappropriately” when footage of him talking to undercover reporters was published.
Towards the latter stages of the World Cup qualifier at Wembley Stadium, Alli appeared to make an offensive gesture towards teammate Kyle Walker, rather than an opponent or the referee
The Super Eagles are on the verge of qualification for Russia 2018 but face a tug of war with England for the Swansea striker.
Towards the end of last season, Rooney dropped out of the squad after failing to feature for Manchester United on a regular basis, but the forward’s start to his Everton career had suggested that he could be handed a recall by Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate
The 44-year-old, Tottenham’s Under-23s coach, died in hospital last month after collapsing at the club’s training ground