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IF at first you do not succeed, try again. It has been a guiding principle for Harry Kane.
Here, the England captain had numerous nearly but not quite moments and, if it were not him, it might have been possible to think it was going to be one of those nights.
This is Kane. And the red-letter occasion when he celebrated his 100th England cap was only going to end one way — him making it happen, getting through on the strength of his talent and remorselessness.
There were 57 minutes on the Wembley clock when Kane lashed high into the Finland net from just inside the area after a lovely first time pass from Trent Alexander-Arnold.
It was Alexander-Arnold’s night, too; the weight and incision of his passing was sumptuous.
Kane did the rest.
A touch with the outside of his right boot to cut inside Robert Ivanov; the hammer brought down. The cameras cut to Kane’s family in the stands and they would do so again before he was withdrawn to heartfelt applause.
Again, Alexander-Arnold was the architect, playing a beautiful return ball to the debutant, Noni Madueke, who had come on as a substitute.
Madueke pulled back; Kane banged first time into the far corner. The captain had said on Monday that he wanted 100 England goals, which sounded like wishful thinking. It is never wise to question his targets. At the age of 31, he has 68.
The result gave the England interim manager, Lee Carsley, a second win in two games after the 2 0 success against Republic of Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. For him, there was much to enjoy. Nothing more so than Kane.
It felt a little out of character to see Kane in sparkly gold boots but then again, the occasion had been built up pretty much exclusively around him. Why not adopt a few trimmings of the showman? He would collect more gold be-fore kick-off — a special cap to commemorate his landmark, two other members of England’s 100 club, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole, doing the honours. And then it was out to mine even more.
There were empty seats inside Wembley but it was still a huge crowd and they had come to see a Kane goal. He was central to virtually everything in the first half and yet the breakthrough eluded him. — theguardian.com.
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