Captain Kane, who broke Wayne Rooney’s all-time England goalscoring document in midweek, scored his fifty fifth worldwide objective within the thirty seventh minute from Bukayo Saka’s cross.
In-form Arsenal winger Saka ended Ukraine’s resistance simply three minutes later, handing over a Jordan Henderson go and curling a elegant strike into the highest nook from simply outdoors the world.
England moved three factors clear on the high of the Group C desk after a win in Italy for the primary time since 1961 on Thursday.
Midfielder Jude Bellingham informed Channel 4, “We requested for 2 wins out of two in the beginning of the camp.”
“We adopted up with one other good lead to Italy tonight and if you do this, it feels rewarding.”
Gareth Southgate’s males produced a formidable show of their first residence recreation since their World Cup quarter-final defeat by France final December.
Kane squandered a superb early probability earlier than giving England the lead.
Ukraine did not discover a shot on the right track and Conor Gallagher, Harry Maguire and Jack Grealish all got here shut late on to attain a 3rd for the hosts.
England, nonetheless awaiting a primary main event title since 1966, returned to qualifying motion in June towards Malta and North Macedonia.
The highest two groups from every group will robotically guide a spot in subsequent yr’s European Championship in Germany.
Denmark squandered a two-goal lead earlier than struggling a shock 3–2 defeat in Kazakhstan.
The Euro 2020 semi-finalists gave the impression to be cruising to victory of their Group H match as Atalanta teen Rasmus Hjolund scored twice within the first half after scoring a hat-trick towards Finland on Thursday.
Kazakhstan started their bid to qualify for the primary main event with a house loss to Slovenia.
However Bakhtior Zaynutdinov’s 73rd-minute penalty gave the hosts hope for a well-known turnaround in Astana.
Midfielder Askat Tagbergen crashed a long-range drive previous a helpless Kasper Schmeichel with 4 minutes of regular time remaining to equalise.
Substitute Abat Ayambetov supplied the golden second for Kazakhstan – who’ve already secured not less than one euro 2024 Play-off place by way of Nations League – 89th-minute leap to go into the highest nook.
He was later despatched off for a second yellow card, however by then he had collected all three factors.
Slovenia recorded a 2–0 win over San Marino within the different Group H match and moved to the highest of the preliminary standings.
Elsewhere, Iceland bounced again from their opening defeat by Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group J with a 7–0 thrashing of Liechtenstein.
Afterward Sunday, Italy will play Malta and Portugal will play Luxembourg.
(With inputs from AFP)