England became the sixth team to complete a UEFA European Championship qualifying campaign with a 100% record, a much-changed side making it ten wins out of ten away to Lithuania.<\/p>\n
Roy Hodgson\u2019s Group E supremos dominated throughout, though two of their three goals \u2013 scored by Ross Barkley, unlucky home keeper Giedrius Arlauskis and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain \u2013 owed a lot to fortune.<\/p>\n
Receiving possession from Harry Kane, Barkley side-stepped his marker and unleashed a strike from outside the penalty box that took a sizeable deflection on its way in off Arlauskis\u2019s right-hand upright.<\/p>\n
Kane was the instigator as the visitors doubled their advantage ten minutes before half-time.<\/p>\n
Exchanging passes with Adam Lallana, the forward advanced into the area and rattled the near post, the ball rebounding on to Arlauskis\u2019s outstetched arm and in.<\/p>\n
Kane had earlier gone close with three sighters, Watford\u2019s Arlauskis thwarting him on each occasion. Arlauskis\u2019s opposite number Jack Butland \u2013 earning his second cap, three years and two months after his first \u2013 was a spectator, though he needed to be alert to deny Lukas Spalvis before England made it 2-0.<\/p>\n
The game long since over as a contest, Hodgson had replaced Kane three minutes earlier with debutant Danny Ings, who soon elicited another save out of the busy Arlauskis as England stretched their unbeaten run to 15 matches. Immediately after the match, in his press conference, Lithuania coach Igoris Pankratjevas resigned.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything has its ending,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the end of qualifying and also the end of my job with the national team. I am resigning from the job. Thank you for supporting the team and goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Source: UEFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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