Richards reveals why Saka gets picked for England over Palmer as he hits back at ‘too positive’ criticism

Micah Richards thinks Bukayo Saka gets picked over Cole Palmer for England because Gareth Southgate likes the Arsenal winger s defensive ability .

Arsenal forward Saka scored the equaliser to cancel out Breel Embolo’s strike as went on to beat Switzerland on penalties on Saturday and set up a last-four meeting with the Netherlands.

Saka scored his spot-kick to banish the ghosts of his miss in the Euro 2020 final shoot-out defeat to Italy.

The victory came just six days on from the last-16 success over Slovakia, where Jude Bellingham’s stoppage-time overhead kick took the game to extra-time.

There have been calls for Palmer who had an incredible first season for Chelsea to come into the team for Saka with England struggling to produce impressive perf…