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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Many of England's stars are almost guaranteed starters for the knockout clash at the weekend with Jordan Pickford, Luke Shaw, Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, Harry Maguire and John Stones all starting the three group games and the latter has seemingly given Southgate his verdict on one of the players who should fill the four spots up for debate.
Stones said: "I've never seen anyone at that age like Phil (Foden). With his football knowledge. with his freedom I suppose, with how he plays and how he expresses himself and the ability that he's got is frightening.
"I'm a huge fan of Phil. I'm lucky I get to play with him pretty much every day. I look forward to what he can do and I love playing with him. (Manchester) City and England are extremely lucky we've got someone like that and I want to make sure that he gets what he needs on and off the pitch, which allows him to go and play as he played the other night."
Foden, who turned 22 earlier this year, has seven Premier League goals for Man City this season and he has clearly made a hefty impression on his club and national team-mate Stones for him to rank Foden above players like Mbappe, Saka, Dejan Kulusevski, Erling Haaland and many others lighting up football at the moment at the very top of list of talented attackers at a young age.
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