England captain Harry Kane will miss Thursday’s pleasant in opposition to Wales with a minor ankle harm.
The 32-year-old missed coaching after taking a kick to his ankle throughout Bayern Munich’s on Saturday.
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England hope their document goalscorer shall be match to face Latvia in a World Cup qualifier subsequent Tuesday.
Supervisor Thomas Tuchel mentioned: “Harry will miss the sport, he received a kick in his final match and it’s too painful to kick the ball and too dangerous for him.
“We give him the prospect for it settle down and we’re satisfied he shall be prepared for Latvia.”
Tuchel confirmed that one in all Jordan Henderson, John Stones or Declan Rice shall be captain at Wembley in Kane’s absence.
England haven’t performed Wales since a 3-0 win on the World Cup in 2022.
Earlier than Kane’s absence was confirmed, Wales boss Bellamy mentioned the ahead was “probably the most full participant I’ve ever seen”.
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Talking on BBC Radio 5 Stay, former England goalkeeper Rob Inexperienced mentioned: “Harry will need to play within the Latvia recreation together with his eyes on numbers, figures and information.
“It is a foregone conclusion they’re going to qualify [for the World Cup] now and no-one goes to take that quantity 9 shirt away from him between now and the summer time.
“The one factor that can take it away from him shall be accidents – they simply have to hold wrapping him up.”
Who might substitute Kane?
With Thursday night time’s recreation a pleasant and World Cup qualification trying doubtless, Kane’s harm is just not a significant concern for Tuchel.
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However England’s reliance on Kane is clear. The captain has scored a document 74 objectives in his 109 caps, with the remainder of the present squad scoring 53 between them.
Kane has scored 26.4% of all England objectives since his debut in 2015, with Raheem Sterling – final capped throughout the 2022 World Cup – the one different participant to attain 20 objectives in that point.
In Tuchel’s squad the obvious candidate to step up on Thursday is Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins, who frequently changed Kane from the bench throughout final summer time’s Euros, within the semi-finals.
Watkins has scored 5 objectives for England in 19 caps however has solely scored as soon as for Villa this season.
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Marcus Rashford is another choice. The Manchester United ahead is on mortgage at Barcelona and prefers to play from the left – however has performed loads of matches within the center.
He has 18 objectives for England – probably the most after Kane within the present squad.
Anthony Gordon has performed in a central position for Newcastle and starred in that place for the England Underneath-21s after they received the Euros in 2023, however he has only one purpose in 14 caps.
Outdoors of Tuchel’s present squad, Ivan Toney performed in opposition to Senegal in June and is out there however taking part in in Saudi Arabia, whereas Tottenham’s Dominic Solanke is injured and has solely received three caps.
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Chelsea signed Liam Delap this summer time after a powerful season with Ipswich, however the 22-year-old is out with a hamstring harm and is but to be referred to as as much as the senior squad.
The highest English goalscorer within the Premier League thus far this season is Burnley’s uncapped winger Jaidon Anthony, who has 4.