Lewis Dunk has played his way back into the England reckoning after outperforming his Premier League rivals.
Brighton centre half Dunk, 31, is pushing hard to be in Gareth Southgate’s squad for the end-of-season Euro qualifiers with Malta and North Macedonia. And he is doing it with better passing stats than Ben White, Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire. The only England centre half with better passing accuracy is Manchester City ’s John Stones with a staggering 93.32 per cent. Dunk, whose accuracy is 90.4 per cent, also outperforms his rivals on long passes, progressive passes and switching play.
The Stats Perform numbers make it clear why Brighton fans have been mystified by Dunk’s four-and-a-half year absence from the England set-up. Dunk’s one and only cap for England came against the USA in a high-profile friendly at Wembley in November 2018 in what was known as the Wayne Rooney farewell game.
