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Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite has been called up to the England squad for the first time but just what has impressed you the most about the 21-year-old’s meteoric rise this season?
Members of the ECHO sportsdesk have their say…
Chris Beesley - It’s great to see Branthwaite’s almost effortless physicality enable him to come up trumps
There are so many aspects to Jarrad Branthwaite’s breakthrough season that impress but for me the most gratifying sight has been when he’s devoured some of the Premier League’s biggest and meanest centre-forwards. Having watched the raw lad from Carlisle a handful of times before his loan spell at PSV Eindhoven, it’s fair to say that Branthwaite did a lot of growing up during his season in the Netherlands and has returned a changed man.
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Not physically of course, the 6ft 5in stopper was already a big unit when he first arrived as a teenager but he’s now such a cool customer his centre-back partner James Tarkowski, who has been roughing up Premier League strikers for years, has observed that the rookie is already operating like a seasoned performer himself, showing maturity beyond his tender years. It’s great to see Branthwaite’s almost effortless physicality enable him to come up trumps though.
There was one moment in the first of Everton’s four successive wins in December at Nottingham Forest when Chris Wood, a battering ram up front who Blues boss Sean Dyche knows well from his time at Burnley, went toe-to-toe with Branthwaite. The New Zealander wouldn’t look out of place lining up alongside his compatriots in the All Blacks rugby team but man
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