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00:00Strong there from Kwanza initially to hold off his opponent, Mark Gaye now.
00:36Good, sharp, positive play here from New Zealand, from Garbutt who goes for goal, brings the save from Pickford.
00:46It's the best we've seen from New Zealand so far, Matt Garbutt getting the shot in.
00:50Spence under pressure, Gaye stays calm, lovely play from Kobi Mainu and Spence able to stride clear.
00:57Yeah.
01:03Mainu looking to spread the play, collected here by Jerelle Kwanza.
01:27It's excellent from Mainu initially.
01:34Well, Jordan Pickford called into action here, Garbutt tried to create the angle for the shot, brought the save from
01:40the England goalkeeper.
01:45Rodgers outmaneuvered there by Marko Stomenic.
01:50A space over on the far side for Tim Payne to venture forward into the Wellington Phoenix player.
01:59Joe Bell.
02:05Back with Boxall as Bell.
02:12Not an easy one there the bouncing ball for Sermon to try and deal with at the back.
02:19Payne once more.
02:23Some encouragement here for New Zealand.
02:29Sarpreet Singh.
02:37Elijah Just.
02:39Here's Kakache.
02:47Best sequence of passes strung together by New Zealand so far in this first half.
03:04Vauxhall a little heavy-footed with that pass to the near side
03:28taken by Kane opening it up now for Jed Spence a lot of space to run into there
03:36Kane swiftly across Spence finds Rogers now it's with Mainu and it will be a goal kick for New Zealand
03:52excellent pass into space there from Harry Kane
04:01Spence Rogers Mainu
04:16Gai able to get in there ahead of Singh
04:22Morgan Rogers red shirts in and around the penalty area ended up striking his teammate
04:29Ollie Watkins they're back with Rogers again
04:32Kwan sir
04:39Kwan sir
04:41Kwan sir
04:43Kwan sir
04:45Kwan sir
04:59Kwan sir
05:03And it's Quantsa winning it back. Little flick on there by Watkins and Quantsa, combining with Rodgers, doesn't fall kindly
05:10for Kane. Cleared away by Finn Sermon.
05:18Relatively quiet opening half an hour for Max Crokem, New Zealand's goalkeeper. That's saved from Kane. The shot was more
05:30or less straight at him.
05:32Paul just bouncing off Chris Wood. Back with Stones.
05:44Chase here for Watkins up against Kakache. Excellent play by Oli Watkins. Almost, almost but not quite finding Marcus Rashford.
06:04Watkins here as the first alternative to Harry Kane when and if needed.
06:11And England, of course, also have Ivan Toni as part of the squad. A real traditional striker. Ivan Toni's had
06:19an excellent season with Al-Akli in the Saudi Pro League.
06:25He's among the substitutes today. This is good play, though, by Watkins up against Kakache.
06:35At the speed and the hustle to get away from the full-back.
06:45Woods pass finding Singh, but it's back with England again. Rodgers into Harry Kane.
06:56Inside the last quarter of an hour of the first half.
07:17Mark Kane.
07:28Here's Stones, who started England's last 26 major tournament games.
07:33Pretty good going for a player who managed less than 13% of possible minutes in the Premier League with
07:41Manchester City this season.
07:49No doubting his ability and Thomas Tuchel certainly doesn't doubt it.
07:53He's, as Tuchel said, has a lot of credit in the bank with him.
07:58Meanwhile, here comes Marcus Rashford.
08:02Leading Payne, a merry dance, super play from Rashford in towards Kane and it's over the top.
08:08Via the white glove of Max Crocombe, who makes the save for New Zealand.
08:19Really sharp from Marcus Rashford and that header from Kane looks as if it was going to go in underneath
08:25the crossbar and Crocombe able to get his fist there to send it over the top.
08:43Just over ten minutes to the break.
08:47Rashford's delivery.
08:49Sermon's header away.
08:51Watkins is covering plenty of ground in this first half, picking out Henderson, now Spence and Kobe Maynou.
09:01Timely return to Foreman, the international group for him, having come back in in March.
09:07Maynou, about 18 months out of it.
09:10As his Manchester United career stalled for a little while.
09:14Here comes Matt Garbutt once more sending it forward, but too far forward for Chris Wood.
09:24Sporadically threatening New Zealand.
09:32Lord just crafting the pass to the hard-working figure of Rashford's, whose little cutback doesn't find anyone in red.
10:02Here comes Matt Garbutt once more sending it forward, but too far forward for him.
10:03Here's Elijah Just.
10:07Number 11 on the near side, Kakache.
10:11Voxal.
10:24may do Henderson referee had a little look happy to play the advantage trying
10:32to keep the game flowing
10:41now it's with Chris Wood who looks around to see what support there is and
10:46Marcus Stamenic provided it referee says get up and get on with the game Singh was rather hoping
10:51for a free kick that's not going to happen Rashford in towards Kane
11:00again no foul there either that challenge from Joe Bell
11:06Henderson
11:14not just whips it in but straight into the gloves of Croker
11:41pain sending it back to Sermon
11:49okay keeping close taps on wood bags of time for Spence
12:24Spence now a little bit of space can he find the ball that he's looking for no is the answer
12:30because
12:32Sermon makes sure of it by being in the right place at the right time elaborate protection he's got on
12:38that
12:39injury
12:40Jed Spence suffering a broken jaw
12:44in the middle of May during Tottenham's defeat against Chelsea
12:47took an accidental elbow to the face in an aerial challenge with
12:52Liam Neillat
12:57that's the protection of the
13:00the jaw with the the mask
13:10can't be particularly comfortable at the best of the times never mind in this sort of heat either
13:18roughly six minutes to the break
13:21still no breakthrough
13:23Russia will try to provide it with this delivery
13:33Bell's header clear
13:42Rashford
14:04no save ultimately required by Max Croker
14:17Rashford
14:17Rashford heading for his third World Cup Finals
14:20this year scored three goals at the last one in Qatar
14:23here comes Oli Watkins
14:24Kane alongside him and now in possession
14:28considers his options
14:30Sermon shuts the door
14:31tries to find Rogers
14:37New Zealand
14:39unable to get rid of the ball
14:42there's Mainu
14:43and now
14:45Rashford again looking for an opening
14:57five more minutes of the first half remaining and still England can't find
15:04away past New Zealand's defence here
15:24he's got to be happy as the Darren Baisley so far with what he's seen from his team
15:29it's quite a
15:31quite a setback losing 4-0 to Haiti the other day
15:34but it's
15:36concentrated Kiwi minds
15:38wonderfully and they've
15:41they've held their own in this first half
15:44briefly
15:45briefly
15:45threatened with a few flurries near the England goal as well with
15:48Pickford forced into
15:50a reasonable save from Matt Garbutt as well
15:53low down to his left
15:58here's Rashford
15:59here's Rashford again
15:59seeing plenty of the ball in the first half
16:02Mainu
16:10Wood away to Garbutt
16:13the
16:13Wood away to Garbutt
16:15one
16:15Wood away to Garbutt
16:20the
16:20one
16:20Wood away to Garbutt
16:21the
16:21Wood away to Garbutt
16:22the
16:22Wood away to Garbutt
16:26Payne's an interesting one there the number two from New Zealand
16:29he experienced social media fame recently when an Argentinian influencer
16:34decided he was the least known footballer at this World Cup and urged people to give him some support
16:38and within days his Instagram account had gone up from about 5,000 people to 5 million
16:48I kid you not Tim Payne has 5 million followers on the Instagram as he heads into this World Cup
17:08and
17:12I can't
17:14I can't
17:15I can't
17:20I can't
17:21I can't
17:21Crocom looking for wood
17:22it's the main thing that New Zealand do single chase
17:26trying harass stones it's cleared by Pickford
17:30collected by cane
17:52game
17:55last 90 seconds of the first half
18:01Harry Kane
18:14Rashford
18:17it's a nice call in and close to picking out Morgan Rogers who'd made the run
18:24two players here of course who just over a year ago were
18:28were teammates
18:31for six months or so when Rashford had his loan spell at Villa
18:36here comes Jed Spence now
18:38we're going to see a late first half flurry from England
18:42we'll have a throw
18:44last minute of the opening 45 can't imagine they'll be
18:52too much additional time certainly not for injury stoppages during this first half
18:58we have the cooling break of course here's
19:01Morgan Rogers trying to find a way through
19:25we have the other three additional minutes minimum
19:41we choose the the opening match for New Zealand
19:48here comes word trying to get on the end of the delivery
19:51I think Iran in Los Angeles
20:00just need one of those to come off
20:05would shown time and time again he's he's got the quality at the top
20:10level 45 goals in 89 internationals for New Zealand Chris Wood
20:16we have the current
20:28Henderson
20:31now with Jarrell Quanson
20:35trying to find or work and opening
20:39managing neither
20:41on this occasion.
20:51Rashford, Spence.
21:10England with a dozen attempts on goal
21:12in this first half, only a couple of them on target.
21:15One from two
21:16for New Zealand. Spence whips
21:18it in, the header from Kane, it's the opening goal.
21:22Right on the stroke of half-time.
21:27Yet another
21:28one for the collection.
21:31International goal number
21:3279.
21:41And once more
21:42it's England's captain who finds the back
21:45of the net.
21:50That's the
21:5167th goal
21:52of the season
21:53for Harry Kane, for club and country.
21:59Prolific.
22:02The deftest
22:03of headers.
22:04Jed Spence
22:06with the cross
22:07and Kane
22:09just got something on it
22:12before Watkins
22:13had a chance to.
22:15England won
22:16New Zealand nil.
22:27And it was the last action
22:29of the first half
22:30and Harry Kane's first real
22:32sighting of goal
22:34ends up with the ball
22:36in the back of the net
22:37and that has been a familiar theme
22:39throughout his career
22:39of course
22:40but none more so
22:41than during the past season.
22:45So Kane's little
22:46deft flicked header
22:47providing England
22:48with a half-time lead.
22:49It will surely be all change
22:51as we head for the second half
22:53but
22:53England with the narrow advantage
22:56over New Zealand
22:57at the break.
22:57England won
22:58New Zealand nil.
23:00players
23:02coming on
23:03for the second half
23:11wholesale changes
23:12for England.
23:27James Trafford
23:29winning his
23:29second England cap
23:31having played
23:32in March
23:33Esri Concer
23:35coming on.
23:36John Stones
23:37getting a rest
23:38after the opening
23:3945 minutes.
23:43Nico O'Reilly
23:44on his
23:44Tino Livramento
23:45as well
23:47and Dan Byrne
23:48at the back.
23:52Well he's been
23:53true to his word
23:53Thomas Tuchel
23:54it's a completely
23:55changed team
23:55there's a first touch
23:56for Bellingham
23:58and Elliot Anderson
24:01effectively watching
24:02two games here.
24:08Rashford
24:10saw plenty
24:10of the ball
24:11in the first half
24:11made a
24:14the keeper
24:15make a save
24:16and Anthony Gordon
24:17one of those
24:18coming on
24:19for the second half
24:20Singh there
24:20just getting
24:21a mild
24:22telling off
24:23from the referee
24:24for snapping
24:24at the heels
24:25of Anderson.
24:42first touch
24:43there for Anthony
24:43Gordon
24:44and Tony
24:44as Anderson
24:46sends it across
24:47Reece James
24:47losing possession
25:03England debut
25:04for Rio
25:05Ngomoa
25:06the 17 year
25:07old
25:07from Liverpool
25:12what an opportunity
25:13and what an
25:14experience for him
25:15Ngomoa
25:16wearing number
25:1731
25:18one of the
25:19additional players
25:20with the squad
25:22adding to the
25:22numbers
25:23while the
25:23the Arsenal
25:25contingent
25:26have a little bit
25:26of extra time
25:27off following
25:28their involvement
25:28in the Champions
25:29League final
25:37is Anthony
25:38Gordon
25:39back into
25:40Bellingham
25:46Ngomoa
25:46first touch
25:48for the senior
25:49team
25:49for England
25:50into
25:50Anderson
25:53Liveramento
25:54must have been
25:55a little bit
25:56concerned
25:56as his
25:57World Cup
25:57chances
25:57when he
25:58picked up
25:58an injury
25:58in the
25:59spring
25:59Anthony
25:59Gordon
26:00wins
26:00the corner
26:00off
26:01Tim Payne
26:02he
26:27has been
26:29in the
26:29for New Zealand
26:32And that's the one change they've made so far.
26:38Bellingham and Kakache getting to know each other a little better.
26:47In from Rhys James.
26:50Riley trying to get on the end of it.
26:52Dan Byrne puts the pressure on and G.R. sees it agonizingly bounce off the outside of the post.
27:01Well, Byrne certainly made his physical presence count there.
27:10Getting to the ball first in the air.
27:16And was just a whisker away from what would have been his first international goal.
27:46So, so far, just the one change for New Zealand overall from their starting 11 England with 11 half-time
27:53changes.
28:13Burn into his clubmate at Newcastle, Tino Liveromento.
28:19Burn into his clubmate at Newcastle, Tino Liveromento.
28:23And with Manchester City, Leco O'Reilly.
28:37Gordon.
28:49good ball from Bellingham straight into Anthony Gordon who was trying to find Ivan
28:53Tony's up alongside him launched away by Kakache collected by Garbet
29:04who won't reach the return pass. Well what a week or so he's had Anthony Gordon having made the move
29:11from Newcastle United to Barcelona. Impressed the locals with some Spanish in his introductory press conference. Here's Concer. Now James.
29:30James of course another one who provides versatility as does Concer who can play in the middle or at right
29:35back. James 60-40 percentage in terms of 60% right back 40% in midfield in the Premier League
29:44this season with Chelsea.
29:48Here's Concer.
29:58Frustrating season for James Trafford the goalkeeper. Couldn't miss a minute in the Domestic Cup competitions.
30:09Enjoyed great success in them but only played four games in the Premier League following the arrival of Jean-Louis.
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