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Malik Ouzia

England 5-3 Kosovo LIVE: Euro 2020 qualifying football as it happened at St Mary's

England lead Kosovo 5-3 following a breathless start to tonight's Euro 2020 qualifier at St Mary's.

Kosovo made a dream start as Michael Keane gifted possession to Vedat Muriqi to set up Valon Berisha inside the opening 40 seconds of the game, but Keane made amends with an assist for Raheem Sterling to head home.

Sterling would then be on hand to tee up Harry Kane, who added to his hat-trick in Saturday's 4-0 thrashing of Bulgaria with a fine finish - and Mergim Vojvoda then turned Jadon Sancho's cross into his own goal to put England 3-1 ahead.

Sterling was at it again with another assist soon after, teeing up Sancho for his first senior England goal - and the pair combined again just before half-time for another.

England thought they were home and dry by half-time, but Berisha scored his second of the game soon after the break before Muriqi won and scored a penalty to put pressure on the Three Lions.

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Team news and line-up

England XI: Pickford, Alexander-Arnold, Keane, Maguire, Chilwell, Rice, Henderson, Barkley, Sancho, Kane, Sterling

Subs: Heaton, Pope, Trippier, Gomez, Mings, Rose, Winks, Mount, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Maddison, Rashford, Wilson

England squad: Tom Heaton, Jordan Pickford, Nick Pope, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ben Chilwell, Joe Gomez, Michael Keane, Harry Maguire, Tyrone Mings, Danny Rose, Kieran Trippier, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Ross Barkley, Jordan Henderson, James Maddison, Mason Mount, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Declan Rice, Harry Winks, Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, Raheem Sterling, Callum Wilson


TV channel and live stream, and online coverage

The match will be shown live on ITV. The channel is Free To Air in the UK.

Viewers in the UK can stream the game live on the ITV Hub, and follow all the action via Standard Sport's LIVE text commentary on our dedicated match blog.


Head to Head history and results (h2h)

The two nations have never faced each other before, with St Mary's to mark their first ever meeting.

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