England release Harry Kane ahead of Spain friendly

Kane was called up by manager Gareth Southgate for Friday’s 3-0 win over Scotland but had only just returned from injury with Spurs and did not feature at Wembley.

Rather than staying with the squad for Tuesday’s match against Spain, he has been permitted to return to his club.

"Harry reported for us last week but obviously he hadn't played a full game for some seven weeks," Southgate said.

"Tottenham were more than happy for him to come with us. It was never really my intention to start him in a game and I think it's important that he gets a different training program to what we're going to follow over the next couple of days.

"I'm really grateful to Tottenham for letting us have him for the qualifier. Once we'd assessed our injury status and the fact we were fine and covered for what we'd do for this game, the sessions that we're going to do aren't what Harry needs at this time, having had such a long lay-off."

Daniel Sturridge started up front against Scotland and scored his eighth international goal.