ENGLAND v PANAMA FACTS

ENGLAND have won both their opening two group-stage games at a World Cup for the third time – also doing so in 1982 and 2006.

THIS was England’s biggest-ever win in a major tournament. THIS was only the fifth time a side had scored five goals before halftime at a World Cup – the first since Germany against Brazil in the 2014 semi-final. JOHN STONES became the first England defender to score two goals in a single World Cup match. HARRY KANE is only the third England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, after Geoff Hurst v Germany in the 1966 final and Gary Lineker v Poland in 1986. KANE is the first player to have scored at least twice in both of his first two ever World Cup appearances since Poland’s Grzegorz Lato in 1974. Lato went on to win the Golden Boot at that tournament. KANE is now the leading scorer at the 2018 World Cup with five goals. He’s scored with all five of his shots on target. ENGLAND scored as many goals in this match as they had in their previous seven World Cup matches combined (six). ONLY in 1966 (11) have England scored more goals in a single World Cup than in 2018 (eight, same as 1954 and 1990). PANAMA have conceded nine goals in their first two matches. The last time any country conceded more in their first ever two was in 1974, with Zaire shipping 11 and Haiti 10. ONLY two players have been older than Panama’s Felipe Baloy (37y 120d) when scoring their first World Cup goal – Cameroon’s Roger Milla (38y 25d) in 1990 and Sweden’s Gunnar Gren (37y 236d) in 1958.