RASHFORD: I WANT TO OUTSCORE KANE

MARCUS RASHFORD wants to outscore Harry Kane and fire England to Euro 2020. The Manchester United striker will start tonight’s Group A qualifier against Bulgaria at Wembley in an exciting front three alongside captain Kane and Raheem Sterling. As England bid to maintain their perfect start to qualification, Rashford — whose place was under threat from Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho — has not hit the target since bagging two in United’s 4-0 opening weekend victory over Chelsea. But he is on a run of four goals in seven appearances for England — and is desperate to get back on the scoresheet. Former England striker Michael Owen questioned this week whether Rashford went to bed ‘obsessing’ about his goals record but the 21-year-old insists he is just as driven as any top-class striker, so much so that he wants to emulate Kane. ‘Harry is one of the best finishers I have played with,’ said Rashford. ‘Whenever we practise finishing, in my head, it’s about being as close to him as possible. So if he scores six, you want to score six; if he scores seven, you want to score

eight. Little things like that are the bits that people never see. Even though we’re fighting for the same position, or to be in the same team, we really do drive each other on. ‘It’s very important that you have that sort of atmosphere within a team.’ Meanwhile Rashford, who was racially abused on social media after missing a penalty during United’s defeat by Crystal Palace in August, says football is going backwards in the fight against racism. His United team-mate Paul Pogba and Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham have also been targeted of late and Rashford said: ‘To see it spike in the last couple of months is unbelievable. ‘I have always said, the more we speak about it, it doesn’t have an impact — there are examples where people have spoken out and nothing has really changed. ‘We want to nip it in the bud. It’s too easy to do whatever you like on the internet. ‘Any of us now could go on and create accounts and write what we want under anybody’s posts and nobody would ever know. ‘It’s easy to figure it out and if you have to show identification to create an account that means everybody can only have one account. ‘For me, there’s hundreds of thousands of people that use my name on social media and they can write what they like.’