Kane, Lukaku battle for Golden Boot

Belgium and England will meet in the World Cup playoff for third place on

Saturday with opposing strikers Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane vying for the

tournament’ s Golden Boot .

Just as Belgium and England ’s dead - rubber game in the group stage carried a

sense of unimportance, so third - place playoffs can be sterile affairs , with both

teams still coming down from having missed out on a place in the final .

But England ’s Kane is favoured to take home the Golden Boot prize for the top

scorer in Russia after scoring six goals so far .

Belgium’ s Lukaku has four

goals , with French pair Antoine

Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe,

who play in tomorrow night’ s

final , on three .

Both Kane and Lukaku were

rested for that pedestrian final

group game in Kaliningrad .

It was dubbed the game “ no

one wanted to win ” , with

coaches Roberto Martinez and

Gareth Southgate well aware

the winning team would top

Group G and set up a possible quarter - final meeting with Brazil .

Belgium won the match with a second - half goal from Adnan Januzaj. Sure enough ,

after beating Japan in the last 16 , they faced five - time tournament winners Brazil .

They beat them 2 - 1 in Kazan , only to then lose their semi - final 1 - 0 against France.

“ I ’ d rather lose with this Bel gium than win with that France, ” Eden Hazard said of

the semi - final defeat . Teammate Thibaut Courtois went further , telling Belgian

newspaper i : “ France played anti - football. ”

But the French are in tomorrow’ s final and Belgium must contest third spot with

England