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Just six weeks after making his West Ham first team bow in the Carabao Cup against Macclesfield Town, Grady Diangana has been rewarded with his first international call up.

The 20-year-old has been selected by the England U20s setup for their friendly against Germany in Colchester on November 19 and joins former U23 teammate Nathan Trott in the squad.

Diangana scored twice on his debut in the 8-0 League Cup tanking of Macclesfield and has transferred that form to the Premier League, where he has made appearances in the last four games and started two of them.

Diangana started the 1-1 draw with Leicester City and bagged his first Premier League assist in the 4-2 victory over Burnley last weekend, laying on the ball for Felipe Anderson to score the Hammers fourth goal and was wiped out by James Tarkowski in the process.

He also started the draw with Huddersfield Town on Saturday.

The academy graduate was also on the radar of the international squad for DR Congo, who club teammate Arthur Masuaku represents, but the English FA have also been keeping tabs on Diangana and have stolen a march on the African country, where the player was born.

Diangana moved to London at the age of four but after witnessing Diangana's displays against Leicester and the Carabao Cup game against Spurs, the Three Lions made their move.

Congo wanted to hand Diangana a senior call up but the Three Lions have instead, rightly, handed him a call up to the U20s. If he impresses for the Three Lions then he could come into contention for next summer's under-21 Euros in Italy and San Marino

When asked about his international options, Diangana previously said: "I've not thought about who I will play for yet.

"Hopefully I can win international honours. But now I just want to play for West Ham."

Diangana has stepped into the break following the serious achilles injury to Andriy Yarmolenko last month, with manager Manuel Pellegrini preferring to use the 20-year-old instead of the more established Michail Antonio.

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Pellegrini is a big fan of Diangana and said of him recently: "I trust in him [Diangana] because for me one of the most important thing for me as a player is that when you have the ball, you give the ball to a player in the same colour shirt.

"If you have red, you must give it to red.

"That is the basic thing for a player, and Diangana always starts with that, he loses very few balls during the game. Every player, when you receive the ball, has different solutions, bad or good, he always has the best solution.

"I think that in this season he will be a player in the first squad playing a lot of games."

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