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England’s World Cup hopes ‘stand or fall’ on the form of their captain and talisman, Harry Kane, insists Jamie Carragher.
The former Liverpool defender, who was capped 38 times by England, believes there are up to five teams for England to fear in Qatar, but the Three Lions have the squad to be competitive, as long as Kane is firing on all cylinders.
The importance of Kane will be underlined when Gareth Southgate names his England squad on Thursday for two Nations League games against Italy and Germany this month.
Harry Kane is crucial to any English hopes of winning the World Cup in Qatar this winter
It will be Southgate's final squad selection ahead of the World Cup, which opens in November, but in the striking department Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Patrick Bamford and Callum Wilson are not in contention. Manchester United’s resurgent Marcus Rashford is also set to miss out through injury, so England have thin pickings up top.
Southgate sees Tammy Abraham as natural cover for Kane, but after a fine season with Roma last term, in which he scored 17 goals in Serie A, he has started slowly in this campaign.
‘It stands up or falls down around Harry Kane, the captain of the country. I don’t think we have anyone to replace him at all,’ Carragher told Sportsmail.
Kane's goal scoring is relentless for both Tottenham Hotspur and for the national team
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher believes Harry Kane is the key to England's World Cup hopes and Three Lions' manager Gareth Southgate does not have many understudies to choose from
‘He is a world-class player. He wasn’t at his best in the last tournament and he still got four goals in and he was nowhere near his best as a player.
