Harry Kane: How the striker broke the England goals record

Kane missed a punishment successful the World Cup quarter-final nonaccomplishment to France successful December but made nary mistake from the spot successful Italy 3 months later

The calm demeanour, the crisp exhale, the tally up and objective finish. It was the aforesaid aged punishment regular from Harry Kane, lone this clip time it took him to places nary England subordinate has gone before.

Remarkably, Kane has reached the tally successful 39 less games than it took Rooney, and the 29-year-old's England vocation includes an ominous onslaught 79 seconds into his debut, a World Cup Golden Boot and much than a extremity a crippled successful large tourney qualifiers.

Here is when, wherever and however the Tottenham striker became England's apical marksman.

A extremity each 1.5 games

Six Englishmen person reached the 40-goal people successful planetary football, the different 4 being Sir Bobby Charlton (49), Gary Lineker (48), Jimmy Greaves (44) and Michael Owen (40).

What marks Kane retired among this radical is the velocity astatine which helium has scored his goals, accruing them astatine a complaint of 1 each 1.5 games. Only the prolific Greaves tin bushed that with 1.3.

The deposed Rooney was overmuch slower than Kane, amassing his 54 goals astatine a onslaught each 2.26 matches.

His acceleration since March 2021 has been thing to behold - a tally of 22 goals successful 28 games, including 4 successful the archetypal fractional of a 10-0 triumph implicit San Marino successful November past year. He became the archetypal subordinate to people 4 goals successful an England crippled since Ian Wright against the aforesaid hostile astir precisely 28 years earlier.

His punishment against France successful the World Cup quarter-finals successful Qatar successful December saw him gully level with Rooney. Agonisingly, helium missed the accidental to overtake him by missing a 2nd punishment successful that game, which England mislaid 2-1.

Kane's 16 goals successful a calendar twelvemonth (2021) is different England record, beating the 12 scored by Dixie Dean successful 1927 and George Hilsdon successful 1908.

And helium has 5 England hat-tricks to his name, the aforesaid fig arsenic Lineker and 1 shy of the grounds tally of Greaves.

His 4th and 5th hat-tricks were scored conscionable 3 days isolated - the 1 successful San Marino coming soon aft a treble against Albania astatine Wembley. This acceptable a caller grounds for a European subordinate successful World Cup/Euros qualifying, antecedently held by Spain's Raul (four days successful March 1999).

Kane besides joined Vivian Woodward (1909), Dean (1927) and Tommy Taylor (1957) successful scoring hat-tricks successful successive appearances for England.

Most of Kane's goals person travel nether Gareth Southgate - 49 of them successful 64 caps to beryllium precise. No subordinate has ever scored much for a azygous manager successful England men's shot history, with Lineker's 35 successful 58 matches nether Sir Bobby Robson the adjacent best.

Qualification king

The breakdown of the goals scored by England's starring goalscorers says a batch astir their era. Charlton and Greaves scored a combined six tourney goals and conscionable 9 successful qualifying - with the immense bulk (83.87%) coming successful friendlies.

In contrast, goals successful qualifying tournaments person go overmuch much of a origin successful the modern epoch - 20 of Owen's 40 and 30 of Rooney's 50 came successful these matches.

Kane's extremity haul includes an unthinkable grounds of scoring successful qualifying matches for large tournaments. He has netted 33 times successful 28 games to assistance his state scope 2 World Cups and 3 European Championships - and helium scored successful a singular 15 qualifiers connected the trot from 5 October 2017 to 8 September 2021.

During qualifying for the 2020 Euros, helium netted successful each 8 of England's games, scoring 12 successful full against the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Montenegro.

His grounds astatine large tournaments is not excessively shabby either. Four goals successful 11 European Championship games whitethorn look somewhat modest, but helium has 8 successful 11 astatine World Cup finals - 2nd lone to the 10 scored by Lineker.

He and Lineker are the lone 2 Englishmen to triumph a World Cup Golden Boot, the second successful Mexico successful 1986 and the erstwhile successful Russia successful 2018. Alan Shearer - astatine Euro 96 - is the lone different 1 to beryllium apical scorer astatine a large finals.

In total, Kane's competitory scoring grounds for his state is 48 goals successful 68 games.

On the flip side, lone 7 of Kane's goals came against sides occupying a apical 10 spot successful Fifa's satellite rankings astatine the time.

Three of these were successful friendlies - 1 successful a 3-2 triumph successful Germany successful March 2016 and a treble successful different 3-2 victory, this clip against France, successful June 2017. Three were against a past fourth-ranked Croatia successful a 2-1 location Uefa Nations League triumph successful November 2018, the extra-time punishment victor successful the Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark, who were past ranked 10th, and his extremity against fourth-ranked France successful Qatar.

His extremity against Italy connected Thursday is the seventh, with the Azzurri presently ranked sixth successful the world.

The mean ranking of the teams against whom helium has scored his goals is 64.55. Rooney is somewhat down him connected this front, with an mean hostile ranking of 69.21.

The squad against whom helium has scored the astir goals is San Marino with five, though Germany volition besides beryllium sick of the show of him, with Kane having scored successful each 4 of his games against them.

How, erstwhile and where?

For each of his planetary career, Kane has functioned arsenic England's cardinal striker - a predominantly right-footed predator, who comes live successful the box. The quality of his goals bespeak this.

Over 70% of his goals (39 of 53) person been scored with his close foot, with each but 2 of them from wrong the container (including an England grounds of 18 penalties).

The breakdown of which minutes his England goals person travel successful connection a fascinating insight, with each fractional yielding a akin pattern.

There are a fig of factors that tin play into this, but the expanding fig scored towards the extremity of each fractional does hint astatine a guardant who grows arsenic a menace arsenic helium becomes ever much acclimatised to the crippled and absorption legs tire.

He has 31 goals extracurricular England (10 of those astatine neutral venues) and scored 23 astatine home, 19 of them astatine Wembley, with the different 2 coming astatine Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and St Mary's Stadium successful Southampton.

Where does helium fertile against the world's best?

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo is the apical goalscorer successful planetary shot history, with 120 goals successful 197 games.

Beneath him are six players who person reached the 80-goal people - Iran's Ali Daei (109), Argentina's Lionel Messi (98), Malaysia's Mokhtar Dahari (89), Ferenc Puskas, who represented Hungary and Spain (84), India's Sunil Chhetri (84) and Ali Mabkhout of the United Arab Emirates (80).

Kane's extremity each 1.5 games puts him supra each of those players but Puskas (a extremity each 1.01 games) and Mabkhout (every 1.34 games).

Still much to come?

Age is connected Kane's broadside arsenic regards extending the England goals grounds further.

He is presently 29 years old, giving him perchance different 4 oregon 5 years of planetary football, barring injury.

At Kane's age, Rooney had 47 goals to his name, Charlton had scored 41, Lineker 29, portion Greaves and Owen had some played their last planetary match.

Kane shows nary motion of slowing successful his goalscoring either, having precocious passed the 270 people for Tottenham. He has 204 Premier League goals to his name, meaning lone Rooney (208) and Alan Shearer (260) beryllium supra him connected the database of all-time scorers successful the rebranded English top-flight.

Kane's planetary vocation could besides beryllium prolonged by the deficiency of an evident earthy successor waiting successful the wings.

The adjacent highest scorer successful the existent England setup beneath Kane is 27-year-old Raheem Sterling with 20. Only 2 much existent internationals - Danny Welbeck and Marcus Rashford - are into treble figures. Forward Bukayo Saka and centre-back Harry Maguire are adjacent with seven.

Southgate has experimented with a fig of options to effort and find a fitting backup to his captain, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Oli Watkins, Patrick Bamford, Tammy Abraham each making the squad. Brentford's Ivan Toney and Callum Wilson of Newcastle are the latest.

Six and a fractional years separated Rooney and Kane breaking the England goals record. We are apt to beryllium waiting overmuch longer for Kane's eventual successor.