With time ticking on England manager Gareth Southgate announcing his squad for the Qatar World Cup, now is make-or-break time for some of the candidates hoping to be on the plane.
Players who have started the season in flying form do so knowing that they are strengthening their chances of being at the showpiece, while now is not the time for Three Lions hopefuls to be making mistakes or having shockers.
Sportsmail keeps an eye on who's looking likely to make the squad when the tournament starts in November.
NICK POPE
Will option number three win the two-horse race to become England's No 1? All the talk in the last 12 months has been about Jordan Pickford v Aaron Ramsdale but Pope has quietly moved to the front of the queue, making it two clean sheets from two after his bargain £10million move to Newcastle.
The 30-year-old has only won eight caps for his country but England have won all eight, conceding once.
OLLIE WATKINS
The Villa striker's team-mate — and rival for a seat on the Qatar Express — Danny Ings got a goal but it was Watkins who made it, his first of two assists against Everton on Saturday.
His link-up play and hard running to create space for runners from midfield will serve him well, giving Gareth Southgate the option to play him in a front two with Harry Kane.
REECE JAMES
Forget whether James is in the team because Southgate doesn't fancy Trent Alexander-Arnold, right now the Chelsea man is simply the best right back we have.
Another majestic display yesterday against Spurs, capped off with a goal, tightens his grip on a starting spot.
HARRY MAGUIRE
How long can Maguire's United form go on before it costs him his England place? For Brentford's fourth goal on Saturday, Maguire began on the edge of the hosts' penalty area, giving Ivan Toney a 20-yard headstart in a race the striker could have won at half-speed anyway.
Fortunately for Maguire, centre back is a problem position, with only AC Milan's Fikayo Tomori and Tottenham's Eric Dier in anything approaching good club form.
AARON RAMSDALE
The 24-year-old's excellent first season at Arsenal was notable for a lack of conceding 'giveaway' goals that he should have done better with.
James Maddison's shot on Saturday was struck hard and low but straight at Ramsdale. This is not the time for him to start letting shots — and doubt in Southgate's mind — creep in.
BEN CHILWELL
England are not blessed with left backs, to the point that Kieran Trippier has spent a lot of time there in the last four years.
But even as the best conventional option, Chilwell will be worried about the £52.5m arrival of Marc Cucurella, who replaced him in the Chelsea starting XI yesterday and was a threat throughout, in conjunction with Raheem Sterling.
Dombnouyz
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harry maguire is a pool defender
Dombnouyz
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forget maguire in England
Mebacoy
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Harry should be selected for England team 💯💯💯😅😘😆😝😜
caacdlmnpt
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please keep Maguire 🙏
Sinaeilmry
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Gareth Southgate if you get Maguire to world cup it point less
Madcap_237
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administration should remember this is the football app and not a porn site, this is getting ridiculous now, Do Something about it
Sad to see tht sadly the app is becoming more immoral with those lowlifes around especially with the fact tht there are Ladies and Kids on here as welltht deserve spec. I know AF also means well with their WAGs articles but I wish they limit the amount of it cus there are assholes here who use those articles with the photos in them and jerk off or do other weird stuff. It's just tht AF doesn't knw wht goes on. Hopefully they improve on these issues soon
Madcap_237
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administration should remember this is the football app and not a porn site, this is getting ridiculous now, Do Something about it
LOL I was actually being nice to them cus it seems they turn to threaten to ban users who OVERuse their @. I had personally made it my job to go around pointing those numbskulls out and telling AF or Autty to do smthx. But unfortunately I've complained until nthx seems to be done and nw I'm scared tht they might ban me LOL 😆. So I decided to be nice 4rm nw even though its pretty hard to do
Blacknight8235
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Hey @autty I don't mean to bother u but can't u guys do anything about all these numbskulls who post these things in almost every article We're getting tired of seeing this. There are females and kids on here as well tht need to be respected
you are still being nice to administration, like you don't want to sound mad at them,,you should be more outrage as i am, Admin must be seeing this nonsense and are not taking steps to eradicate it from the site, they started by putting up pictures of players wife giving these sickos to opportunities get more bold and daring, it has to stop before the app turns to a porn site
Blacknight8235
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administration should remember this is the football app and not a porn site, this is getting ridiculous now, Do Something about it
liweklpsuz
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I want it
miodeksu
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Southgate shall hv reconsider back Mc Ice box if England want to avoid a schoolboy error at Qatar