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Le choc Angleterre-Croatie a tenu toutes ses promesses ! Aprs 90 minutes taille patron , les hommes de Thomas Tuchel s'imposent 4 buts 2 face des Croates trop timides en deuxime priode. Revivez la victoire des Three Lions avec les COMMS RMC !

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For 45 minutes, this had the makings of another England worry festtwo leads surrendered, two soft goals conceded, the old ghosts stirring. Then Thomas Tuchel gave the team the right motivation at the half. England stopped being generous, and the game tilted in their favor for good. The 4-2 scoreline at Dallas Stadium undersells how one-sided the second half became. Harry Kane has a brace. Jude Bellingham and Marcus Rashford supplied the rest. Croatia hung around, then got buried. Here are my takeaways from England's World Cup opener win. 1. Harry Kane Is the Most Complete Striker on the Planet Two more goals, of course. A retaken penalty he buried without blinking, then a textbook finish off a Declan Rice delivery. A brace in a World Cup opener from a man who treats scoring like a chore he's contractually obligated to complete. The Bayern Munich numbers have stopped being numbers and started being satire: 36 Bundesliga goals this season a third straight Golden Boot, the most in Europe's top five leagues and 58 in all competitions. He is, right now, the most clinical finisher alive. But the finishing isn't even the best part. Watch where he operates. Kane spent long spells dropping into midfield, spraying passes, setting tempo, springing Bellingham into space. A No. 9 who is also your best No. 10. That's not a striker. That's a two for one deal that England simply cannot live without. 2. Getting Forward Was Absurdly Easy The xG told one story; the eye test told a louder one. England piled up 22 shots, 11 of them on target. The only reason this wasn't a rout was Croatia keeper Dominik Livakovi, who at one point produced a save-rebound-save scramble to deny Nico O'Reilly, then Anthony Gordon, then Ezri Konsa in the span of seconds. The width was relentless Noni Madueke constantly pushing on the right, and Gordon stretching on the left making the middle of the field worse for Croatia because that's where Jude Bellingham lives. Time and again he collected the ball, drove through the lines and arrived in the box, finishing the third himself and combining slickly with Rice, Kane and Elliot Anderson. When England clicks going forward, few teams on earth create chances this cleanly. This was a genuinely excellent attacking performance. 3. Croatia Won't Reach a Final Like in 2018 But They're Far From Done Let's be honest: the 2018 magic isn't walking back through that door. This Croatia squad won't grind its way to a World Cup final on penalties and sheer stubbornness like it did in Russia. The legs aren't quite there. But write them off at your peril. Luka Modri, 40 and playing his fifth World Cup, didn't have a vintage performance and gave up a penalty, but still moves around like he's 10 years younger. Around the veterans Perii, Kovai sits a genuinely exciting next wave. Como's Martin Baturina announced himself with a thunderbolt of an equalizer. Petar Sui is a complete box-to-box midfielder coming through the ranks. Josip Stanii is a Champions League regular at Leverkusen. The quality is still there, but Croatia's first test happened to be against one of the best five nations at the World Cup. Croatia conceded four and still looked like a team that won't be fun to draw, assuming they advance from this group. That blend of veteran savvy and youth should cause problems to the middle of the pack. 4. The One Thing That Should Keep Tuchel Up at Night Here's the catch on an otherwise glowing day: England fell asleep defensively. Twice in the first half they took the lead, and twice they switched off in midfield the Musa equalizer came straight from a snooze, Perii slipping behind the line and heading it back for the first-time finish through Pickford's legs. There's a pattern here that predates this match: England get ahead, get comfortable, and invite pressure they never needed to. Against Croatia they simply had the firepower to outscore the problem. Against a France or a Spain in a knockout, they won't. The talent is overwhelming the bench alone coughed up Rashford's curler. Tuchel's job isn't adding more attack. It's convincing this team that a two-goal lead is a reason to step on a throat, not ease off it.

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Harry Kane scored twice to equal the English record for World Cup goals, Jude Bellingham added another two minutes into the second half and England beat Croatia 4-2 on Wednesday.Martin Baturina and Petar Musa answered each of Kane's first-half goals in a rematch of the 2018 semifinal game won by Croatia. Musa's goal came on the final play before the whistle ending the first half.The even score didn't last long once play resumed.Bellingham took a long pass and stayed clear of the defender the rest of the way, sending a shot past Dominik Livakovic and in off the far post. Marcus Rashford padded the lead in the 85th minute.Kane, who won the Golden Boot at the 2018 World Cup in Russia by scoring six times, is up to 10 World Cup goals, tying Gary Lineker's mark from the 1986 and 1990 tournaments.The 32-year-old striker's first goal came on his second chance on a penalty kick after Livakovic's save on the first try was nullified by a video review that showed both his feet off the goal line as Kane was striking the ball.Kane went the same way toward the right post with the second attempt, while Livakovic lunged the other direction, to his right.The penalty was called when Luka Modric, the 40-year-old midfielder who extended his Croatian record by appearing in his fifth World Cup, kicked Noni Madueke in the thigh.Kane matched Lineker's mark when the Bayern Munich striker easily beat Livakovic with a powerful header off a corner kick from Declan Rice. Kane has 81 international goals.Bellingham almost immediately had another great scoring chance soon after his seventh international goal. Livakovic made that save and about a half-dozen more in a matter of minutes during a frenetic English attack.Musa plays for Major League Soccer's FC Dallas, which has its home games about 40 miles from AT&T Stadium.The retractable roof venue that is home to the NFL's Dallas Cowboys is giving World Cup fans an air-conditioned reprieve from the muggy Texas heat, this time for white-clad English fans and Croatian supporters who were mostly wearing their country's familiar red-and-white checkered uniforms, not the blue kits the players had on.Musa tracked a header from Ivan Perisic and put a one-timer past Jordan Pickford, who was also beaten in the 36th minute by Baturina. That shot into the left corner ticked off Pickford's hand.England next plays Ghana in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in Group L on Tuesday, the same day Croatia plays Panama in Toronto.___AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/fifa-world-cup