Chris Sutton offers thoughts on Harry Kane’s hopes of breaking England goal record

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Former Blackburn and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton feels Harry Kane is well on course to break England’s goalscoring record barring injury problems further down the line.

Sutton also names Tammy Abraham as potential competition for his starting place but expects Kane to overtake Wayne Rooney’s record of 53; he is now on 32 after scoring in yesterday’s 4-0 win over Kosovo.

Sutton told the Daily Mail: “He has not been in the best form for his club but started this week on 28 goals for his country and finished it on 32 – just 21 shy of Rooney. Given the volume of games and the opponents he will face in the years that follow, I cannot see Kane passing up the opportunity to make that record his own.

“The only thing that might stop the Spurs striker is himself, if he gets injured. Or possibly if someone like Tammy Abraham can somehow succeed in forcing him out of the starting line-up.”

TBR’s View – 12 international goals in 2019; so Kane could break the record within two years

A major tournament year may slow Kane’s goalscoring down but he was the Golden Boot winner at the World Cup with six, which would get him halfway to his 2019 tally of 12 international goals.

Another two years where he scores a dozen goals would take him to the record at the age of 28, which would be a stunning achievement and leave him plenty of time to set the Three Lions bar far higher than anyone has before.

The big issue is he seems to get injured once a season and if he keeps that up, it could hamper him further down the line but that hasn’t been too big an issue with him for England so far.