Raheem Sterling has scored a goal, claimed an assist and was generally very good v Iran. But that was over a week ago now so. Enjoy Mediawatch right here...
‘Revealed: The stats that show Harry Kane is not playing as a striker’
‘Marcus Rashford netted twice against Wales to put himself in contention to win the World Cup Golden Boot and the stats that Southgate will have received make it even harder to drop the Manchester United forward.’ So Sterling – the only one of those wide forwards to be credited with an assist at this tournament – is now not just an inferior option to Rashford but to Saka and Foden too.
‘Having assisted three times, Kane’s position is not under threat and Southgate has proved in the past, as in the case of Harry Maguire, that he is prepared to ignore stats and keep faith with players who have consistently performed for him.’ The ‘data’ basically consists of a list of the England players who have had the most shots and how many of them are on target. We could have told you that Rashford would come out on top in all those metrics . And on that evidence alone, Rashford should start v Senegal, though we are yet to see any evidence why Sterling should not start too.
Pesky but quite important fact: Rashford made two passes v the USA. So with any sensible parameters, Sterling has the best pass completion rate of any of those forwards.
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