How can England fit Kane and Rooney?
Wayne Rooney is an experienced player now and knows how to work the media. His claim that he fears for his place with the rise of Harry Kane right after scoring his 50th England goal and becoming our all-time top scorer is just that.
It's not the captain that is in danger, but the system. Harry Kane is showing in England colours, as in Tottenham colours, that he is a natural goalscorer. At international level that is vital and it is something we have missed since Gary Lineker was daftly taken off by Gordon Taylor.
Rooney offers words of advice to Kane and they will have no doubt talked during their time away with England where Rooney will have passed on his experience. The key message is perhaps not to try to do too much and force something to happen when you have a goal drought. Kane is not in a drought, he has just gone 4 games without scoring this season for us that's all.
Do you change the England system to accommodate Kane, do you play the two together or do you leave an out and out goalscorer on the bench and reduce your chances of scoring a goal. Goalscoring is vital, especially at major tournaments, to leave Kane on the bench and expect him to keep coming up with rescue goals is heaping further pressure on a player and making things more difficult.
You have t have a system, but a system is only as effective as the people within it and England have not had a serious test yet in the simplest of qualifying groups. We should always be looking to raise the standard of the team and having goalscorers in there gives us greater chances of scoring vital goals. Theo Walcott scored a hat-trick and then took 7 years to score his next 4, Sturridge scores goals but always seems to be injured and Rooney generally scores in qualifying.
Players like Kane don't come around every day, do we play two up front, does Rooney play off Kane or does he drop even deeper with Kane and Sturridge as a strike force? Plenty of options for Roy Hodgson to ponder over probably the next 10 games until it all matters.
Rooney's full remarks on Kane can be found in the Guardian article.
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It's not the captain that is in danger, but the system. Harry Kane is showing in England colours, as in Tottenham colours, that he is a natural goalscorer. At international level that is vital and it is something we have missed since Gary Lineker was daftly taken off by Gordon Taylor.
Rooney offers words of advice to Kane and they will have no doubt talked during their time away with England where Rooney will have passed on his experience. The key message is perhaps not to try to do too much and force something to happen when you have a goal drought. Kane is not in a drought, he has just gone 4 games without scoring this season for us that's all.
Do you change the England system to accommodate Kane, do you play the two together or do you leave an out and out goalscorer on the bench and reduce your chances of scoring a goal. Goalscoring is vital, especially at major tournaments, to leave Kane on the bench and expect him to keep coming up with rescue goals is heaping further pressure on a player and making things more difficult.
You have t have a system, but a system is only as effective as the people within it and England have not had a serious test yet in the simplest of qualifying groups. We should always be looking to raise the standard of the team and having goalscorers in there gives us greater chances of scoring vital goals. Theo Walcott scored a hat-trick and then took 7 years to score his next 4, Sturridge scores goals but always seems to be injured and Rooney generally scores in qualifying.
Players like Kane don't come around every day, do we play two up front, does Rooney play off Kane or does he drop even deeper with Kane and Sturridge as a strike force? Plenty of options for Roy Hodgson to ponder over probably the next 10 games until it all matters.
Rooney's full remarks on Kane can be found in the Guardian article.
Further Tottenham Reading
Tottenham are missing more clear cut chances than anyone
Son Heung-min delighted with first international hat-trick
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