World Cup 2018: Why the Golden Boot fits for England’s Harry Kane

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England’s Harry Kane is used to accolades for his goal scoring – after all it took him just 79 seconds and three touches to score on his international debut against Lithuania in March 2015.

But Kane, twice the Premier League’s top scorer with 108 goals in 153 top-flight games, now has the biggest individual goal scoring prize of all in his sights – the World Cup’s Golden Boot.

His penalty in Tuesday’s last-16 victory over Colombia took him to six goals for the tournament, two clear of his nearest challenger, Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku, and three clear of a small group including France’s Kylian Mbappe.

In the process he also equalled Gary Lineker’s England record for number of goals in a tournament, set in 1986, and became the first Englishman to score in six consecutive internationals since Tommy Lawton in 1939.

With Sweden to come in the quarter-finals on Saturday (and a potential two further games after that), Kane may not be finished yet.

BBC Sport looks at he stacks up against the rest and whether the Golden Boot could be heading in the direction of an England player for the first time since Lineker, 32 years ago.

 

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