No Wayne Rooney, Raheem Sterling or Gary Cahill in top-scoring Sky Sports Fantasy Football England XI
Tuesday 13 October 2015 17:49, UK
Sky Sports Fantasy Football have provided us with their highest-scoring England XI, which includes just four of Roy Hodgson's regular starters.
Indeed, the side includes five uncapped players and another two, Jamie Vardy and Wilfried Zaha, with just two caps to their names, while only Joe Hart and Chris Smalling started in England's last fixture, a 2-0 win over Switzerland on September 8.
With a solitary goal to his name to his name, Wayne Rooney has fewer points than eight other English strikers, while talk of Chelsea's central-defence pairing being England's best has been somewhat muted with Gary Cahill (4 points) and John Terry (-4 points) enduring wretched campaigns so far.
Regular midfield duo James Milner (26 points) and Raheem Sterling (27) are edged out following modest starts to their seasons after switching clubs, leaving just six members of Hodgson's latest squad in the team.
Joe Hart
The Manchester City goalkeeper started the campaign with five successive clean sheets but it's worth noting that he is yet to rack up bonus points for saves nor a man of the match award, while Stoke's Jack Butland has four and two in those respective categories.
Eric Dier
Switching from defence to defensive midfield seems to have been the making of Dier; he's scored twice and helped Tottenham keep three clean sheets. He sits third of all defenders in the Sky Sports Fantasy Football game.
Chris Smalling
Smalling has also made the step up this season, starting his season with a MOTM performance and helping Manchester United keep clean sheets in half of their eight games.
Craig Dawson
Dawson's West Brom also boast four clean sheets this season, with Tony Pulis constructing yet another rock-solid backline.
Scott Dann
Crystal Palace's Dann is the third uncapped player in the Sky Sports Fantasy Football top-scoring England team, with a spread of a goal, an assist and a MOTM award this season.
Nathan Redmond
Questions over Roy Hodgson's midfield are hardly muted by Sky Sports Fantasy Football stats, with 12 midfielders boasting more points than the top-scoring English option. Uncapped Redmond has three goals this season but has also been benched three times by Norwich boss Alex Neil.
Theo Walcott
Walcott is registered as a midfielder but has predominantly operated as a centre-forward for Arsenal this season, scoring two and setting up another couple.
Ross Barkley
The Everton playmaker has really started to fulfil his potential this season, setting up three goals and scoring two, and is likely to be the only listed player in the middle of the park for Hodgson on Friday night.
Wilfried Zaha
Crystal Palace's attacking threat is epitomised by Zaha's pace and skill, with the 22-year-old contributing a couple of assists and a goal to see him edge out Scott Sinclair (29 points), Marc Albrighton and Mark Noble (both 28 points).
Callum Wilson
Wilson might have been hoping for a phone call from Roy Hodgson last week, having racked up five goals. However, he has since suffered a major injury blow, rupturing his knee ligaments.
Jamie Vardy
The former Halifax and Fleetwood forward is back in the England squad after kicking on from his impressive debut Premier League campaign with seven goals in as many starts this season.
