SERRAVALLE, San Marino (AP) — England deed treble figures successful goals successful a competitory crippled for the archetypal clip to powerfulness into the World Cup connected Tuesday (AEDT).
Harry Kane enjoyed himself, successful particular, successful the embarrassingly one-sided 10-0 triumph implicit San Marino that secured England archetypal spot successful Group I of European qualifying.
England’s skipper scored 4 goals — each successful the archetypal half, with 2 of them being penalties — to determination his planetary tally to 48, which is tied with Gary Lineker and lone 5 disconnected Wayne Rooney’s all-time grounds for the country. Kane finished 2021 with 16 goals for England, a nationalist grounds for a calendar year.
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While it was a time of solemnisation successful immoderate ways, English shot fable Michael Owen said the thrashing was a grounds of planetary football's enduring problem, with one-sided qualifiers successful the lead-up to large tournaments hurting its credibility.
Owen tweeted helium was "rapidly falling retired of love" with planetary football, concluding that "a restructure is needed".
Harry Maguire, Emile Smith Rowe, Tyrone Mings, Tammy Abraham and Bukayo Saka besides scored, on with an own-goal, arsenic England showed nary mercy against the world’s lowest-ranked squad — a lineup filled with non-professionals who were utilizing yearly permission from their time jobs to play successful the qualifier successful Serravalle.
When England got to treble figures aft 79 minutes, determination appeared to beryllium a bully accidental the squad could astatine slightest lucifer its biggest ever triumph — 13-0 implicit Ireland successful 1882. That’s 1 of lone 3 times England has scored 11 goals oregon more.
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This was England biggest triumph since 1964 erstwhile it achieved 10-0 against the United States successful New York.
England finished connected 26 points, six wide of second-placed Poland, which mislaid astatine location to Hungary 2-1 and mightiness beryllium unseeded for adjacent year’s playoffs. That would mean Poland playing distant successful its one-leg semifinal successful 1 of the 3 playoff brackets.
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