A handful of games into his season-long loan spell at Coventry City , it’s fair to say the jury was out on Carl Rushworth as far as some were concerned.

The team were conceding too many goals – seven in their first five Championship matches – the majority of which were from set-pieces. Fortunately, however, there were plenty going in at the other end to spare the collective blushes at the back – the 5-3 victory at Derby a case in point.

But fast forward a couple of months and Rushworth had settled in and kept an all-time club record of clean sheets for the Sky Blues and was being spoken about in terms of a possible England call-up for this international break’s World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania – dead rubber fixtures which give Thomas Tuchel the opportunity to have a look

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