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Kieran Horn

John Stones snubs Bukayo Saka and Kylian Mbappe in favour of 'frightening' Man City team-mate

The beauty of the World Cup is that every day for roughly a month some of football's greatest players are in action for the sports greatest prize. While some fixtures have been relatively boring, some of the attacking displays have been incredible with Kylian Mbappe, Marcus Rashford and Lionel Messi just a few names who have put in tantalising displays in front of goal.

Even with England's blank against the USA, Gareth Southgate's side are the competition's top scorers following their 6-2 win against Iran and recent 3-0 victory over Wales. Every single winger to feature for the Three Lions in Qatar has found the back of the net with Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish all one one goal, while Bukayo Saka is on two and the tournament's joint-top scorer Rashford is on three.

England face Senegal in the last-16 on Sunday and Southgate faces a difficult decision with a number of players posing their case to start the knockout fixture after Sterling and Saka were rested against Wales, with Rashford and Foden starting in their places.

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