Six Englishmen have scored more than 10 league goals this season, which offers Harry Kane a new challenge
By Martin Laurence for WhoScored
There is a very noticeable trend in the race for the
Premier League golden boot this season: a lot of strikers are scoring a lot of goals and a surprising number of them are English. Seven players scored more than 10 league goals before New Year’s Day and all but one of them have been capped by England. As 2019 became 2020, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang sat in the top scorer chart alongside six
England internationals: Jamie Vardy, Danny Ings, Tammy Abraham, Marcus Rashford, Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling.
Of course, top scorer Vardy – whose total of 17 goals puts him four clear of his closest challengers – has retired from international football, but Gareth Southgate has plenty of alternatives. The most surprising among them is undoubtedly Ings, who scored his 13th league goal of the season against
Tottenham on New Years’s Day, taking him two clear of Kane at the opposite end. Kane has been guaranteed a starting place in the England team for some time – he was made captain by Southgate before the
World Cup in 2018 and repaid that faith by winning the golden boot – but he is now facing genuine competition.