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The Manchester United striker starts against Australia at the Stadium of Light with England coach Hodgson urging him to seize the moment.
“It is a big game for him,” he said Hodgson. “Because I, my coaching staff, the rest of the players, he himself and the whole of the football world is going to be looking and saying, ‘Right, we all think this lad has something special, can he now show it to us once again?
“We will be england vs australia live giving him every opportunity to do that.”
England will check on the fitness of Daniel Sturridge, who missed training for the second successive day with a calf strain, ahead of the friendly.
Harry Kane will be rested, Wayne Rooney will begin on the substitutes’ bench and Jamie Vardy is absent having got married on Wednesday.
It opens the way for Rashford to continue a meteoric rise with a place in Hodgson’s final 23-man squad - which must be named by midnight on Tuesday - now a distinct possibility.
“It is a big game for him,” he said Hodgson. “Because I, my coaching staff, the rest of the players, he himself and the whole of the football world is going to be looking and saying, ‘Right, we all think this lad has something special, can he now show it to us once again?
“We will be england vs australia live giving him every opportunity to do that.”
England will check on the fitness of Daniel Sturridge, who missed training for the second successive day with a calf strain, ahead of the friendly.
Harry Kane will be rested, Wayne Rooney will begin on the substitutes’ bench and Jamie Vardy is absent having got married on Wednesday.
It opens the way for Rashford to continue a meteoric rise with a place in Hodgson’s final 23-man squad - which must be named by midnight on Tuesday - now a distinct possibility.