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Euro 2020 runners-up England are expected to record another six-point haul when they face Malta and North Macedonia in June, but Southgate will not allow complacency to seep in.
"I would expect everyone would want to be here and want to be a part of it," the England boss said of the Group C trip to Malta and qualifier against North Macedonia at Old Trafford.
"We'll of course look to psychologically refresh the group by giving them some time off at the end of the season.
"But if we start to think that we haven't got to turn up for games in June because the world ranking of the opponents isn't as high as the two opponents we've had now, then we are in trouble, really.
"That's not the approach we'll be looking for and I don't think the mentality of the team [is like that].
"We're challenging the team to be the best in Europe in the next 13 months.
"That requires everybody's commitment, that requires everybody to be prepared to play whenever and that requires the standards of training every day and everything we do to be at the highest level no matter who we're playing against."