3-0: Record with double by Kane and England, almost in the quarterfinals
It was a special night for Harry Kane and everything went according to plan. In an ideal setting like Wembley and against an a priori favorable rival like the Czech Republic by Santi Denia, England He fulfilled the logic with absolute prominence of his great captain. The Bayern Munich striker equaled the legendary goalkeeper’s record of 125 games Peter Shilton with the ‘Three Lions’ and, in addition, he celebrated with two goals, which also raises his record as all-time top scorer to 91.
The 3-0 score confirms England’s good form, which, after starting its journey in group A3 of the Nations League losing to Spain (2-3), has achieved the next 9 points against the Czechs (they also won in Prague by 0-2) and Croatia. With six more than the Balkans and a 7-0 average in the absence of the second match of November, the ‘Three Lions’ are virtually in the quarterfinals.
Gordon, no minutes
Thomas Tuchel made four changes to the starting eleven that overwhelmed Croatia (0-7) on Saturday. The main changes were in the attack, where the Barcelona player Anthony Gordon and Bukayo Saka rested and left their place for Morgan Rogers and Eberechi Eze. The madridista Jude Bellingham and Kane, starter in all four games of this FIFA window.
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England: Pickford; Alexander-Arnold, Quansah, Guéhi (Branthwaite, d.63), Hall (Gibbs-White, d.73); Anderson (Garner, d.63), Lewis-Skelly, Bellingham (Ngumoha, d.73); Eze, Rogers and Kane (Calvert-Lewin, m.82).
Czech Republic: Hornicek; Coufal (Kricfalusi, m.84), Vitik, Hranac, Slama (Zmrzly, m.68); Kral, Sadilek (Macek, d.68), Sulc; Ambros (Hlozek, m.58), Lingr (Radosta, m.46) and Naderi.
Goals: 1-0. Coufal, pp, (m.27), 2-0. Kane m.40 and 3-0. Kane, m.57.
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands) cautioned Lewis-Skelly (m.53) for England and Sadilek (m.54) and Vitik (m.67) for the Czech Republic.
Incidents: Match corresponding to the fourth day of the Nations League played at Wembley (London).
As expected, England came forward and surrounded the Czech goal. In minute 6, Lukas Hornicek He excelled to take a trademark free-kick from another Real Madrid player, Trent Alexander-Arnold. Although after the initial avalanche, the Central European team had more of the ball for the moment, it was always exposed to the rapid English transitions.
Coufal, at his own door
What no one expected is that the ‘Three Lions’ would open the scoring with a gift of Vladimir Coufal, who beat Hornicek with his own goal by pushing into the net, without being in any way under pressure, a ball to the far post from Kane to Eze.
Kane wanted to be the protagonist in his big night and before the break he did not waste a perfect pass from Rogers to score at will against Hornicek (40′).
After the break Kane, tireless at 33 years old, wanted more against a practically surrendered rival. He unleashed a whiplash from the edge of the area that bounced off the crossbar and shortly after, on a corner kick from Lewis Hall at the far post, he definitively sealed the match with a header that hit the woodwork (57′).
The fans rewarded his great performance when he was substituted in the last moments. Kane had taken center stage in a night to remember.
