San Marino vs England: Tottenham’s Harry Kane breaks the record for most England goals in a calendar year in the 10-0 win in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers- The Three Lions captain Harry Kane broke a near-century old record by scoring his 16th England goal in 2021. The Tottenham forward has been in impressive form for Gareth Southgate. He completed a first-half hattrick and then managed to score his 4th goal in the 2nd half. Find out Harry Kane stats below.
Scored the most goals ever in a calendar year for @England. ✅
First player to score back-to-back hat-tricks since 1957. ✅
First player since 1993 to score 4+ goals in a game. ✅
👏 @HKane 👏 pic.twitter.com/Is7mDigx0R
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) November 15, 2021
Harry Kane Stats-
For the Three Lions, Harry Kane has a total of 48 goals and 14 assists in 67 matches. While his start to the Premier League season was slow and full of transfer rumors, linking the English striker to Man City.
He stayed at Tottenham and has 7 goals and 2 assists in 16 games for the Spurs.
A flurry of Records by Harry Kane in 10-0 victory
- Most Goals for England: Harry Kane scored four in the first half to go level with Gary Lineker on 48 England goals. Only Sir Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney are ahead of Kane in the England goalscorers list. He now stands just five behind record-holder Rooney’s tally of 53.
- Most Goals in a Calendar Year: He also set a new record of 13 Goals in a calendar year
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Back to Back Hat-tricks: Kane also became only the fourth player to score a hat-trick in consecutive England games as he earlier scored 3 goals against Albania in the last match.
Harry Kane vs San Marino- Before the match, Kane was on 12 goals for this calendar year which was tied with George Hilsdon’s total in 1908 and Dixie Dean in 1927.
What makes Kane’s achievement extraordinary is that he was on 9 Three Lions goals for the calendar year last week – but now has seven more in a matter of days to break the record which stood for 93 years.
Kane is also the fourth player to score a hat-trick for England in back-to-back games, after Dean in 1927, Vivian Woodward in 1909 and Tommy Taylor in 1957.
San Marino vs England- Match Report
In truth, England needed only a point against the world’s 210th and lowest-ranked footballing nation to seal the top spot in Group I so the only real question was how many goals they would deliver to mark the occasion.
Harry Maguire began the rout with a sixth-minute header and Filippo Fabbri scored an own goal before Kane took over to put England 6-0 ahead before halftime.
Emile Smith-Rowe marked his first England start with the seventh and even after Kane was substituted the punishment continued for San Marino who had Dante Rossi sent off for a second yellow card.
Tyrone Mings, substitute Tammy Abraham, and Bukayo Saka all got on the scoresheet in a farcically one-sided match that did little for the reputation of international football.
Harry Kane’s impressive performance-
Ian Wright and Roy Keane heaped praise on the Three Lions skipper, labeling the 28-year-old as an ‘elite’ scorer during the half-time break.
‘We are talking about an elite goalscorer, you can only beat what’s put in front of you,‘ Wright said during the interval.
Back to back! 🎩⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ What a way to seal our World Cup spot and finish the campaign on a high. pic.twitter.com/M40WvAeBfe
— Harry Kane (@HKane) November 15, 2021
‘England are being clinical and professional,‘ Keane added. ‘The biggest challenge is the surface. They are keeping it simple and getting it into the box.‘
England boss Gareth Southgate accompanied Wright and Keane on praising Kane at full-time in San Marino, joking that England’s all-time leading goalscorer Wayne Rooney would’ve been on to him to take him off to stop him scoring any more in the second half.
Hello @HKane, welcome to the 48 goal club. I suspect your membership will expire within minutes, but it’s been a pleasure to have you alongside. 👏🏻👏🏻
— Gary Lineker 💙 (@GaryLineker) November 15, 2021
‘If we left him on another half an hour, we would have had Wayne Rooney’s family on the phone,‘ Southgate laughed after the game. ‘He is a phenomenal goalscorer, we wanted to give him the chance tonight and he took it well.‘
After Kane joined him on 48 England goals, former striker Gary Lineker wrote on Twitter: ‘Hello @HKane, welcome to the 48 goal club. I suspect your membership will expire within minutes, but it’s been a pleasure to have you alongside.‘
Harry Kane stats, San Marino vs England: Tottenham’s Harry Kane breaks the record for most England goals in a calendar year in the 10-0 win in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers
