England vs Albania LIVE: 7 most interesting facts and stats as England aim to stay at the top in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers- Table-toppers England will make sure that they continue to stay on the top as they lock horns against Albania. England has Poland breathing down their neck as the Polish are just 3 points behind. England is the only team in the group that is unbeaten. They have faced 2 draws against Poland and Hungary.
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England vs Albania LIVE in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Check out some amazing stats and facts by Opta
- England has never fallen behind in their five games against Albania, only facing Turkey (eleven times), Andorra, and Colombia (six times each) more often without trailing for a single minute in their international history.
- England is unbeaten in their last 18 matches in all competitions, their best unbeaten run since going 19 in a row without defeat between November 1965 and November 1966.
- Albania has won three of their four away 2022 World Cup qualifiers (L1) – in their previous 12 World Cup qualifying campaigns, they only won four away matches (P52 W4 D7 L41).
- This will be Gareth Southgate’s 67th match in charge of England, the joint-most of any England manager since Sir Bobby Robson left in 1990, equalling Sven-Goran Eriksson’s tally between 2001 and 2006.
- Southgate has already won more games (42) than Eriksson (40), with only Sam Allardyce (100 percent, from one game) and Fabio Capello (67 percent) having a better win ratio for England than Southgate (64 percent).
- In England’s last match against Hungary, five players from Manchester City (Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Raheem Sterling, John Stones, Kyle Walker) were in the starting XI, the most from one team for a match since June 2016 vs Iceland, when five Spurs players were in the XI.
- Albanian substitutes have been directly involved in ten goals in 2022 World Cup qualifying (four goals, six assists), the third-most of any country behind Poland (16) and the Netherlands (11). Armando Broja – who plays his club football in England on loan at Southampton from Chelsea – has been responsible for five of those (three goals, two assists) while his team-mate Odise Roshi has the most assists from the bench (three).
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