The most goals Croatia had conceded in any previous home match was four. England had five after 53 minutes and ploughed on, winning 7-0 in a ruthless Nations League victory that marks the Croatians’ heaviest-ever defeat.
Thomas Tuchel’s side were devastating in Rijeka, giving a schooling to Slaven Bilic’s team, who were quite simply not at the races.
In front of 100 “hardcore” England fans and 6,200 Croatian schoolchildren in a match officially played “behind closed doors” due to a UEFA sanction against their hosts, all four members of England’s scintillating front four scored in the first half, and there were a…
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