But competition for places behind Kane is fierce. <\/p>\n
Danny Welbeck has scored seven goals for Brighton<\/a> this season – only one short of Calvert-Lewin – while Marcus Rashford has rediscovered his form at Barcelona. <\/p>\n Ivan Toney, currently at Saudi Pro League side Al-Ahli, was used as an impact substitute during Euro 2024.<\/p>\n But it is Aston Villa<\/a>‘s Ollie Watkins, fresh off his double that sunk Chelsea<\/a> on Saturday, who is currently ahead of Calvert-Lewin, according to Murphy. <\/p>\n “If you compare the two players, Watkins has the edge in terms of using his pace to stretch teams and get in behind,” he said.<\/p>\n “I’m not saying Calvert-Lewin doesn’t want to run in behind, because he does, but I think Watkins has the edge when it comes to speed.<\/p>\n “He also has the edge when it comes to making a meaningful impact at a major tournament. Calvert-Lewin made two substitute appearances at Euro 2020 but Watkins had that big moment by scoring the winner in the semi-final against the Netherlands at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n “He will also have a slight advantage in terms of understanding and relationships with the players in the current squad.”<\/p>\n Whether Calvert-Lewin will be with England next summer could hinge on how many specialist strikers Tuchel wants to have in his squad.<\/p>\n “Every player dreams of England and Calvert-Lewin has been in the squad before, scored goals and shown he is capable at that level, so will have that belief in himself,” Murphy added.<\/p>\n “I think it might come down to whether Tuchel takes two or three centre-forwards. If it is three, he definitely has a chance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But competition for places behind Kane is fierce. Danny Welbeck has scored seven goals for Brighton this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-376827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}