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After a 5-0 defeat, the first team in Europe qualified for the World Cup, and the fourth team in the world played crazy: won all 6 games

6:16am, 15 October 2025Football

A group match in the first stage of the World Cup European qualifying competition begins. England, ranked fourth in the world, is a guest to challenge Latvia. England's results in this European preliminaries are extremely good. They have won the first 5 group matches and kept clean sheets in all of them. They have done extremely well on both offense and defense. Now England faces Latvia, a weak team ranked 137th in the world. England won the first leg of the match 3-0. There were no surprises this time. England swept Latvia with 5 goals, completing a double play!

England deployed a 433 offensive formation in this game. The attacking combination of Anthony Gordon, Harry Kane and Saka worked together. Rice, Elliott Anderson and Morgan Rogers form a midfield three. The back four of Lewis Skelly, Stones, Konsa and Spence started. Pickford serves as starting goalkeeper. England's starting lineup is worth a total of 640 million euros. The total value of Latvia's starting lineup is only 4.88 million euros.

Harry Kane scored shortly after the game started, but the goal was invalid because of offside. Subsequently, Harry Kane outflanked and shot in the middle of the penalty area and missed. In the 26th minute, England finally seized the opportunity to score. Gordon dribbled the ball in from the left and shot low into the far corner, and the ball went in! This ball depends entirely on personal ability. In the 38th minute, Harry Kane tried a long shot but missed.

In the 44th minute, Harry Kane finally scored! He shot a low shot into the far corner from the front of the penalty area and the ball went in! Subsequently, Harry Kane created a penalty kick opportunity. He personally took the penalty, deceived the goalkeeper, and scored twice. At halftime, England led Latvia 3-0. The game has basically lost its suspense.

In the second half, Latvia changed sides and played again. Latvia made substitution adjustments, and Tony Shevs came on as a substitute. In the 58th minute, England scored again. Tony Scheffs accidentally kicked the ball into his own goal. This own goal made Latvia even worse. 4 minutes later, Gordon's close shot was blocked. In the 78th minute, Bowen took a direct free kick and missed. In the 86th minute, England scored again! Eze cut inside and shot into the far corner, and the ball went in! In the end, England defeated Latvia 5-0.

Winning this game means that England has won all 6 games in the group stage and advanced to the World Cup 2 rounds in advance. England is the first European team in Europe to qualify for the World Cup finals and the 25th team in the world to qualify for the World Cup.

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