GOALS AND MORE GOALS

I can keep on about the game last night; after all it was a 7-0 win and the England team has scored more goals than that in at least 13 post war games.

It was the youngest England side in 60 years to score seven and the crowd still turned on poor old  Gomez when he came on to help!
Sofranac of the "Black Mountain" XI  (Montenegro) did help the final total against his team when he deflected Mount's (of the mountain) shot  past his own goalkeeper.
The total number of own goals benefiting England now stands at 54 in the 1000 games, the highest total of goals scored FOR England in history.

Recently a high score for England was 8-0 v San Marino in 2013.

Previous big scores include:
October 1987 v Turkey 8-0...in 1987 Neil Webb became the country's 1000th cap when he came on as a sub v Brazil in a friendly.
October 1984 v Turkey 8-0 (A World Cup Qual)
September 1973 v Austria 7-0
May1964 v USA 10-0
June 1963 v Switzerland 8-1

Some November high scores are:
20th Nov 1963 v N.Ireland 8-3
16th Nov 1949 v N. Ireland (again) 9-2
27th Nov 1946 v Holland 8-2

High goal scorers are:
Wayne Rooney 53/120, Bobby Charlton 49/106, Gary Lineker 48/80, Jimmy Greaves 44/57, Michael Owen 40/89 Harry Kane 31/44.
(Ronaldo by the way is on 98 goals in 163 Portuguese internationals.)

Kane's hat trick was supplied by Ben Chilwell in 24 minutes.

Great hat trick scorers include:
Vivian Woodward (above) of Spurs then Chelsea, scored 4 England hat tricks in the 1903-11 era)
Jimmy Greaves 6 below in his pomp), Gary Lineker 5, Stanley Mortenson 3, Michael Owen 2.
Only 8 players have hat tricked against England in the 20-21st Century. Zlatan Ibro and van Basten most recent.