5 of the best: The pick of Harry Kane’s international goals
The Tottenham striker has become England’s joint all-time leading goalscorer.
Harry Kane became England’s all-time joint leading goalscorer when he scored a penalty against France in the World Cup quarter-final.
Here, the PA news agency pick five of Kane’s most crucial international strikes after he joined Wayne Rooney on the 53-goal mark.
Start as you mean to go on…
Having started scoring regularly following his breakthrough into the Tottenham team, Kane was handed his Three Lions debut in the Wembley clash.
Named on the bench, Kane watched Wayne Rooney score his 47th England goal and Raheem Sterling his first before he was introduced for the former with 72 minutes gone.
He needed just 79 seconds to open his England account, a back-post header squirming in to cement a 4-0 win for Roy Hodgson’s side.
Captain fantastic
The visitors took the lead as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain struck with just 20 minutes left on the clock.
But Hampden Park would become a cauldron of noise as Leigh Griffiths scored two free-kicks in the space of three minutes to turn the game on its head.
Cue Kane and his knack of knowing how to find the back of the net, volleying home a Sterling cross to the back post to draw England level at 2-2 in stoppage time for his sixth England goal.
From Russia with love
Two of his six goals came in the opening group stage game against Tunisia on June 18, 2018 on a surprisingly difficult evening for the Three Lions in Volgograd.
Having put England ahead in the 11th minute by turning home the rebound from a saved John Stones header, Kane had seemingly put Southgate’s side on course for three points.
But, after Ferjani Sassi’s penalty drew Tunisia level, England toiled in their attempts to find a winner until Kane headed home Harry Maguire’s knockdown in the first minute of added time to seal a 2-1 victory.
World Cup revenge
One of the draws of the inaugural Nations League competition and the three-team group stage was that every match mattered.
So it proved on November 18, 2018 as Andrej Kramaric’s deflected opener just before the hour had England on course to be relegated to League B.
Instead, Jesse Lingard’s equaliser meant the Three Lions were safe, before Kane took centre stage again.
Having gone seven internationals without a goal, he slid in to turn home Ben Chilwell’s cross with just five minutes remaining.
The 2-1 win took England through to the first-ever Nations League finals, where they would go on to finish third.
On the rebound
He scored the second in a 2-0 win over Germany and followed up with a brace in the quarter-final success against Ukraine in Rome.
That set up a meeting with Denmark at Wembley on July 7, 2021, where Mikkel Damsgaard’s fine free-kick on the half-hour mark was cancelled out by Simon Kjaer’s own goal.
Kane drew a superb save out of Kasper Schmeichel in extra-time before England were awarded a penalty when Sterling was tripped inside the box.
Schmeichel pushed Kane’s penalty away, only for the skipper to react quickest to turn home the rebound and send England into their first major final in 55 years – where they would lose to Italy in a shoot-out.
