England sweeps San Marino 10-0 and qualifies for the 2022 World Cup.. Cain sets wholesale records
The England national team swept its humble host San Marino 10-0 on Monday night, in the tenth round of Group I of European qualifiers, to guarantee direct qualification to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane scored a quartet, bringing the "Three Lions" team to 26 points at the top of the group, six points ahead of Poland, who lost 1-2 at home to Hungary, and will enter the playoffs.
And the "Three Lions" team renewed its victory over San Marino after crushing it at home 5-0 in the first round of the qualifiers last March, knowing that the two teams met eight times, and England prevailed in all of them.
She scored 52 goals and conceded once.
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Caen - Caen hit more than one bird with one stone, so he was unique in the English record for the largest number of goals in one year (2021) after raising his score to 16 goals.
Kane had scored (before this match) 12 goals in one year (2021), equaling what he scored in 2019, and sharing the England national team record with George Hildesdon of Chelsea (1908) and Dixie Dean (1927).
Kane also became the first player since Dixie Dean to score a hat-trick or more in two consecutive matches for the English national team, after he scored a "hat-trick" from his team's five against Albania in the previous round, and the first English player to achieve a "super hat-trick" in one match since Ian Wright against San Marino in particular. in 1993.
Tottenham's top scorer, who left the field in the 63rd minute, raised his score to 48 international goals in his country's shirt, equaling Mexico's World Cup top scorer Gary Lineker in third place, and is within a goal of Bobby Charlton (49) and four from Wayne Rooney, the top scorer (52).
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England coach Gareth Southgate relied on a mixture of experience and young talents, pushing goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale between the three stages for the first time in his career, while his fellow Arsenal striker Emile Smith Rowe started for the first time.
Phil Foden, Harry Maguire, Calvin Phillips and Kane maintained their positions after they participated in the five-way win against Albania in the previous round.
Maguire opened the scoring show in his fourth goal in the qualifiers, from a header after a corner kick by Foden (6), before Bukayo Saka caused the second goal after he hit a ball from inside the area from the left side, which was turned by Felipe Fabri with his foot in his team's goal, deceiving his goalkeeper (13).
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