Raheem Sterling has been a go-to player for England but his form has dipped at the WORST possible time... still, Gareth Southgate won't drop the Manchester City star, will he?

What do statistics tell us? Sometimes, quite a lot — especially when it comes to Raheem Sterling.

For example, Sterling has been fit and available for 25 meaningful England internationals, excluding friendlies and the occasional dead rubber, since being left out of the team to play Slovakia in a World Cup qualifier in September 2017.

The Manchester City forward has been selected to start all bar one of those games, a match against Montenegro at Wembley in November 2019 from which he was stood down after an altercation with Joe Gomez at St George's Park.