Harry Kane\u00a0equalled World Cup records of\u00a0England\u00a0legends Gary Lineker and David Beckham with his first-half double in the 4-2 win opening win against\u00a0Croatia\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With his goals, Kane joined Lineker on 10 in World Cups, while he also became just the second player to score for England at three different World Cups (2018, 2022, 2026), along with Beckham (1998, 2002, 2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\u00a0Bayern Munich\u00a0striker came into the tournament on the back of a record-breaking season in Germany and did not take long to make a statement in North America in the Group L opener in Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He opened the scoring with a retaken penalty in the 12th minute when his original effort had been saved by\u00a0Dominik Livakovic\u00a0after the Croatia goalkeeper had come off his line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After Croatia then equalised through\u00a0Martin Baturina, Kane doubled his tally when he powered a header into the bottom corner from Declan Rice’s corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After Croatia drew level for a second time through\u00a0Petar Musa\u00a0on the stroke of half-time, second-half goals from\u00a0Jude Bellingham\u00a0and\u00a0Marcus Rashford\u00a0sealed victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kane won the Golden Boot in 2018 in Russia when he scored six goals during England’s run to the semi-final, including a hat trick against\u00a0Panama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He then bagged another two during the\u00a0Qatar\u00a0edition but missed a penalty against\u00a0France\u00a0in the quarterfinal defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–\u00a0England at the 2026 World Cup: Schedule, results, how to watch<\/strong> Lineker scored his 10 goals in two tournaments, winning the Golden Boot with six in Mexico ’86 before adding four at Italia ’90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But with Kane on the board so early, he will be hoping to become the first player to win two Golden Boots and matched rivals\u00a0Kylian Mbapp\u00e9\u00a0and\u00a0Erling Haaland, who both scored braces in their opening matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He will be a good bet to go past Lineker and break another record, having had opportunities to score a hat trick in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Gary was an incredible striker for England, and to achieve 10 World Cup goals is impressive,” he told the Press Association before the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harry Kane\u00a0equalled World Cup records of\u00a0England\u00a0legends Gary Lineker and David Beckham with his first-half double in the 4-2 win opening win against\u00a0Croatia\u00a0on Wednesday. With his goals, Kane joined Lineker on 10 in World Cups, while he also became just the second player to score for England at three different World Cups (2018, 2022, 2026), along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417451,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417446\/revisions\/417451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
–\u00a0England 4-2 Croatia: Kane at the double in chaotic win<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n