Not only does England lack a good resource of centre forwards, Steve McClaren is also expected to ask Jamie Carragher to play at left full back this Saturday.
Centre-half Carragher said: "Playing for England, you are always going to have competition (for places) because we have some of the best players in the world. You are delighted to play anywhere - and if the manager thinks I can do that job at full-back, then great but at the minute we're still not sure of the make-up of the team. People keep mentioning it but at the minute we don't know the team so I can't really say much about it.
"Hopefully I'm involved but we'll see what happens. If he asks me to do that, I am sure I'll be doing a lot of work on the training ground in the next few days because it isn't something I have done at Liverpool for a while. I have played a whole season there for Liverpool and we did all right, so hopefully I'll be able to produce that form.
"It is more demanding physically. I played there for a spell in the World Cup and you can tell the difference physically. Maybe being centre-back is more of a mental thing really. It takes more out of you mentally rather than physically."
"I'd love to play at centre-half for England but John Terry and Rio Ferdinand were probably two of our best players in the World Cup last summer, you can't really argue with that. It is just one of those things. For me, John Terry is the best centre-back in the world. Over the last three or four years, I wouldn't have anyone ahead of him. Then you've got Rio who was as good as anyone at the World Cup, a £30million defender, so I am in no position to complain about not playing at centre-back. You are talking about world-class players. When I come away with England, hopefully I can learn off them.
"You are always trying to improve and if you are in good form you have to keep that going. Hopefully I can do that and help us get the result we want this weekend. I've got 30-odd caps for England and hopefully I can get a few more before my career finishes."
Source: liverpoolTV.com/TheFA.com