Hurricane Kane’s hat-trick seals 6-1 win for England

Sun 24 Jun 2018 World Cup Group G

England 6                                                                                                Panama 1

Stones 8’, 40’), Kane (22’pen, 345’+1 Pen, 62’), Lingard (36’)          Baloy (78’)

A hat-trick by captain Harry Kane and became the tournament’s leading scorer and ably helped by john stones scoring an early header and even heading a second, Jesse Lingard adding in the 36^th minute at Nizhny Novgorod.

Kane opened his scoring with a thunderous penalty after Jesse Lingard had been fouled and scored again before half-time with another penalty after he was wrestled to the ground. Kane completed his treble with a fortunate deflection from Ruben Loftus-cheek’s shot after the break before Panama pulled one back through Felipe Baloy.

England top Group G as they have fewer yellow cards than Belgium.

Panama was totally dismantled, as England secured a place in the last- 16 stage.

England had 59 per cent possession compared to Panama’s 41 per cent.

England play Belgium at Kaliningrad Stadium on Thursday to see who tops the group at 19:00 BST kick off.