Andy Carroll Pulls Out Could Lambert Be Drafted For England ?
Andy Carroll has pulled out of the England squad due to injury, could this be Rickie Lamberts chance ?
The short and not so sweet answer is no ! Roy Hodgson has decided he wont bring anyone in as a late replacement, if he had decided to do so then Rickie Lambert would surely have been that man.
Sadly though he wont be and the ngland boss has given a clear indication that he is not going to consider Lambert for an England cap, the main reason is probably age, to be fair he probably has a point there, he still has a few strikers in the squad and they are going to be the players that take England through the next few years, Lambert will be 32 next February and perhapsd a bit old to get international experience now, although some would point at Jermaine Defoe and the fact that he is only eight months younger than the Saints number 7, but Defoe is an experienced international.
But what wont have helped Lambert is his barren spell in front of goal, prior to Sunday he hadn't scored in his previous six outings and in total of the 16 games since Mauricio Pochettino took over at SMs he has only managed 5 goals, most of those have not been from open play, this could have played a big part in Hodgson's thinking.
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