A penalty goal by Harry Kane with two minutes remaining allowed England to open their points record in this edition of the League of Nations, after achieving a valuable draw on their visit to Germany.
Result that allowed Italy to climb to the top of the classification of group 3 of League A with two units more than the Germans and three more than the English, by beating Hungary 2-1.
In the hours before the clash, the English coach, Gareth Southgate, recognized the offensive dependency that the “Three Lions” team has on the Tottenham striker’s goals.
A dependence that was confirmed again this Tuesday in Munich where only the efforts of Harry Kane avoided the defeat to which England seemed doomed midway through the second half.
And it is that if the first half was more close, after the break the German team took complete control of the game. A superiority that Hans-Dieter Flick’s men transferred to the scoreboard after 50 minutes with a goal from Jonas Hofmann, who did not miss a sensational filtered pass from Joshua Kimmich to establish the 1-0.
Marker that seemed to make England react and, above all, Harry Kane, who after going practically unnoticed in the first period, was noticed, and in what way, in the final stretch of the match.
If in minute 76 he put the German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to the test with a hard shot, in minute 84 he provoked the penalty that finally allowed England to equalize the contest.
A penalty that was not initially conceded by the referee of the match, the Spanish Carlos Del Cerro Grande, who had to watch the video images to point out the eleven-meter point.
Maximum penalty that Kane did not miss to sign the 1-1 and match with a total of 50 goals a legend like Bobby Charlton as the second top scorer of the English team, only surpassed by Wayne Rooney, who closed his career with 53 goals .
If Harry Kane has a fundamental weight in England, midfielder Lorenzo Pelllegrini has no less influence in this “new” Italy proclaimed by Roberto Mancini.
The Roma player, who already scored in the draw (1-1) that the transalpine team signed on the first day against Germany, was in charge of putting the “azzurra” victory on track this Tuesday after signing the momentary 2-0 at 45 minutes for those of Mancini against Hungary.
An advantage that the Italian team, in which the young forward Wilfried Gnonto, only 18, played his first game as a starter today, knew how to manage until the end, despite the goal from Hungary, which closed the gap in the 61st minute with a goal in Gianluca Mancini’s own goal.
For their part, in League B, the teams from Bosnia and Finland moved into group 3 with a total of four points each, after beating Romania (1-0) and Montenegro (2-0), respectively, on Tuesday.
If in the case of the Bosnian team the victory was signed by striker Smail Prevljak, who established the final 1-0 at 68 minutes, in the case of Finland it had the name of attacker Joel Pohjanpalo, who scored the two goals for the Nordic team in The first half.
Turkish Dogukan Sinik and Serdar Dursun also ended the day with a brace, scoring four of the six goals (0-6) by which the Ottoman team beat Lithuania.
A win that, together with the one they achieved on the first day (4-0) over the Faroe Islands, allows Turkey to lead group 1 of League C, yes, level on points with Luxembourg, which added its second consecutive victory in the competition by beating the Faroe Islands 0-1 with a penalty goal from Gerson Rodrigues, who finished the contest with nine players. EFE
