FIFA World Cup 2018: The England XI that will not be playing in Russia

Forwards: Callum Wilson and Glenn Murray

Wilson will be hoping to get an England call-up in the near future

England fans should be happy that both Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy are fit and firing on all cylinders because no other English forward can match up to those two at the moment.

Bournemouth's Callum Wilson would have been a decent option in the squad but Southgate went with Danny Welbeck and understandably so because of the Arsenal man's record for the national team.

Welbeck has scored 15 times in 37 games for England which also makes him the highest scorer in the World Cup squad ahead of Harry Kane who has 12 goals in 23 games.

However, if you look at Welbeck's domestic form, he has scored just 11 Premier League goals in 52 games in the last three seasons while playing for Arsenal. During the same time, Callum Wilson scored 19 goals in 61 league games for Bournemouth.

Both players went through serious injury issues during the abovementioned period, so it would be fair to say that Wilson has done enough to warrant a call-up ahead of Welbeck.

Murray was the fourth highest scoring Englishman in the Premier League this season

Glenn Murray, on the other hand, is a completely different case.

He was the league’s joint 10th highest goalscorer this season with 12 goals and he achieved this while playing for 15th placed Brighton and Hove Albion.

Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy and Raheem Sterling are the only three English players with more goals than Murray in the Premier League this season.

Not bad for a 34-year-old striker, huh?