Curbishley suggests Bent is ahead of Manchester United's Owen in the pecking order for a World Cup place.

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He grinned, looking at the two bent backs and the big packs ahead of him moving through the trees.

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Michael Essien hit the bar for Chelsea before they went ahead from a disputed corner after Darren Bent's sliced clearance went in off Juliano Belletti.

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The Black Cats were ahead as early as the fifth minute courtesy of a neat finish from Darren Bent from six yards.

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Beyond first-choice strike-duo of Rooney and Aston Villa's Emile Heskey, Capello has called-up Tottenham pair Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch, Sunderland's Darren Bent, Heskey's Villa team-mate Gabriel Agbonlahor and West Ham's Carlton Cole ahead of Owen for England's successful World Cup qualifying campaign.

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