JAKARTA – England's national team match, against Hungary, in the Nation League, should be a campaign for Harry Kane who is trying to break Wayne Rooney's goal record in the Three Lions team. It's just a shame that Gareth Southgate's team had to lose 0-1 to the hosts at the Puskas Arena, Budapest, Saturday, June 4.
This makes the Tottenham Hotspur striker's efforts have to fight harder to catch up with five goals he has left behind from Rooney.
A controversial penalty, converted by Dominik Szoboszlai, gave the hosts their first win over the Three Lions in 60 years. This win extended their record in the competition to one loss in 10 matches.
Meanwhile Kane will have to wait until the match against Germany on June 15 to be able to add to his goal coffers for the England national team.
Even so, the Tottenham Hotspur striker stated that the team's performance was more important than personal achievement.
"I want to solve it as soon as possible, I want to score as many goals as possible in the next four games before the World Cup," Kane told reporters ahead of Saturday's game against Hungary in Budapest.
"But I'm a person who doesn't let that affect me when I'm on the pitch, I have a job to do, it's not about goalscoring... it's about the team getting the three points and winning the game," Kane said.
Kane, who was on the pitch against Switzerland in 2015 when Rooney improved Bobby Charlton's 49-goal record, added the importance of the feat had not been lost on him.
"Of course I think it will be a great achievement. I was lucky enough to play on the pitch and actually score a goal when Wayne broke his record," he said as quoted by Reuters. "I saw how much he and his family meant. I didn't really think that far at the time."
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