Kane knew short about his 62nd-minute one-third, diverting Ruben Loftus-Cheek ‘s injection in via his heel, but a World Cup soprano takes him top of the goalscoring charts in Russia, american samoa well as putting him in illustrious England company aboard Gary Lineker and Sir Geoff Hurst.
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England players congratulate goalscorer Kane
Ryan Mason’s England player ratings
England: Pickford ( 7 ), Walker ( 7 ), Stones ( 8 ), Maguire ( 7.5 ), Trippier ( 8.5 ), Loftus-Cheek ( 7 ), Henderson ( 8 ), Lingard ( 9 ), Young ( 7 ), Sterling ( 7 ), Kane ( 9 ).
Subs: Rose ( 6 ), Vardy ( 6 ), Delph ( 6 ).
Man of the match: Jesse Lingard
Panama were a naive as they were robust in the swelter heat, but the first-timers were afforded some consolation cheer when 37-year-old ersatz Felipe Baloy pounced 12 minutes from prison term. The attention-getting scoreline was one to further raise home hopes and bolster finish deviation ahead of a confrontation with Belgium on Thursday to decide peak descry in Group G, although disciplinary records will be needed to separate the sides in the event of a draw.
Who tops group in event of draw?
If two teams are equal on points, goal difference and goals scored, FIFA determines their rank by carnival play points obtained in group matches as follows :
– yellow card : minus 1 point
– indirect crimson card : minus 3 points ( as a resultant role of a second gear yellow card )
– directly crimson card : minus 4 points
– yellow card and calculate red poster : minus 5 points
Only one of the above deductions is applied to a player in a individual match.
England are presently ahead on -2, with Belgium -3 but if they remained tied on fair play points, FIFA would draw lots .
Panama had warned England they would “ play unvoiced ” and Lingard had taken a Gabriel Gomez elbow to the grimace inside the opening minutes, before danger came at the other end when Edgar Barcenas found Anibal Godoy in space, only for the midfielder to dreadfully miscue .
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John Stones rose unmarked to make it 1-0
Team news
Despite that photographed team note, Raheem Sterling kept his position in England ‘s starting XI. Ruben Loftus-Cheek replaced Dele Alli following his second joint injury.
Panama were unaltered, despite their open frustration to Belgium.
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But England seized early inaugural from another set-piece as Kieran Trippier swing in and Stones found himself unblock, powering a downwards header past Jaime Penedo as crimson shirts grappled alternatively with Kane and Harry Maguire. Barcenas cut inwardly and curled narrowly wide ( 16 ) as Panama looked to profit down the mighty flank, but more meaty defending soon gave England the prospect to double their lead. Fidel Escobar barged Lingard to the turf and Kane ‘s conversion – into the top-left corner – was emphatic .
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Jesse Lingard celebrates after scoring England ‘s third
Lingard had carried his menace with cagey motion and he struck a brilliant one-third after a give-and-go with Raheem Sterling, England ‘s travelling supporters now loud in the sunlight. A all right training-ground act brought a fourthly, Stones following up after Sterling ‘s close-range header was parried, and when Godoy was penalised for arms tightly wrapped around Kane, the Tottenham striker lashed another spot-kick the lapp direction. England ‘s intensity dropped in the high temperatures after the bankrupt, their function hanker done, but Sterling might have opened his account had Kane ‘s pass been better placed .
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Harry Kane celebrates his moment goal
Panama player ratings
Panama: Penedo ( 6 ), Murillo ( 6 ), Roman Torres ( 5 ), Escobar ( 4 ), Davis ( 5 ), Barcenas ( 7 ), Cooper ( 4 ), Gomez ( 5 ), Godoy ( 4 ), Jose Luis Rodriguez ( 6 ), Perez ( 5 ).
Subs: Arroyo ( 6 ), Avila ( 6 ), Baloy ( 7 ) .
Kane rather completed his hat-trick unwittingly, before being replaced by Jamie Vardy, as Gareth Southgate took the opportunity to call for fresh legs. A barely-worked Jordan Pickford kept out Michael Murillo ‘s drop shot and a lunge Roman Torres went close at the back post, but the moment to remember for Panama last came when Beloy slid in to meet Ricardo Avila ‘s corner, England left horizontal surface with Belgium on finish remainder, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as points .
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Gareth Southgate embraces Harry Kane as he comes off in the second one-half
Man of the match – Jesse Lingard
England ‘s indefatigable leader left the peddle with the match ball and perch position in the Golden Boot race but Manchester United ‘s Jesse Lingard, murder prompt against Tunisia, deserves ample praise. Targeted for some rough discussion in the orifice stages, he hit back by winning the first penalty and then summoned a blockbuster stopping point from the edge of the area .
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- England have won both of their opening two group stage games at a World Cup tournament for the third time, also doing so in 1982 and 2006.
- This was England’s biggest ever win in a major tournament match (World Cup and European Championships).
- This was only the fifth occasion a side had scored five goals before half-time in a World Cup match, and the first since Germany did so against Brazil in the 2014 semi-final.
- Only in 1966 (11) have England scored more goals in a single World Cup tournament than they have in 2018 (8, same as 1954 and 1990).
- Only two players have been older than Panama’s Felipe Baloy (37y 120d) when scoring their first ever World Cup goal – Cameroon’s Roger Milla (38y 25d) in 1990 and Sweden’s Gunnar Gren (37y 236d) in 1958.
- England striker Harry Kane is the first player to have scored at least twice in both of his first two ever World Cup appearances since Poland’s Grzegorz Lato in 1974. Lato went on to win the Golden Boot at that tournament.
What’s next?
England and Belgium face off in Kaliningrad at 7pm on Thursday, with Tunisia and Panama – both nowadays ousted from the tournament – converge at the like time in Saransk.