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Euro2016: Hodgson admits to England striker headache

England manager Roy Hodgson has admitted to having a selection headache over the striker positions in his team.

The Three Lions have been wasteful in front of the goal in the group stage of the competition and have scored only three goals despite creating a tournament-high 65 chances.

The likes of Harry Kane, Daniel Sturridge, Harry Kane, Adam Lallana, Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford are currently competing for the forward positions in Hodgson's plans and he admits there is a difficult decision to be made leading into the Round of 16 with the to-be-decided Group F runners-up next week.

"That could also be a headache we have to deal with because all of them have shown a lot of qualities in the games but none of them, as yet, have really shown they are able to score the goals we need," admitted Hodgson.

"We will have the headache of trying to decide which strike force we're going to use.

"I thought Lallana, Sterling and Kane did very well against Russia but in the second game, when we weren't scoring goals, I gave Vardy and Sturridge a chance and they scored goals and won the game for us.

"[They] kept their place in the team... who knows what happens next time. The pecking order will come next time we play. Whoever starts, whoever comes on as substitute and scores the goal."

"I think all of these guys are scorers. The fact is at the moment because we haven't scored many, sometimes there's very difficult questions to defend."

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