England vs Scotland as it happened: Gareth Southgate's side extend lead in the group with 3-0 win
Re-cap the action from England's win over historic rivals Scotland
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Your support makes all the difference.England take on Scotland in a competitive international for the first time in 17 years at Wembley on Friday night. Gareth Southgate's side go into this World Cup qualifier on top of Group F with seven points from three games, while Gordon Strachan's men sit 4th on four points. The two teams use the occasion to mark Armistice Day by wearing poppies on black armbands, in defiance of Fifa rules which prohibit political, religious or personal statements.
- Gareth Southgate encouraging confidence, not arrogance, ahead of his date with destiny
- 'Freer' Wayne Rooney to be restored to Southgate's starting line-up
- Why Jack Wilshere and Rooney have to start at Wembley, according to Ray Wilkins
- Fifa says it has not banned poppies and any claims that it has are a 'distortion of the truth'
- England players called his agent at Euro 2016 to 'get me out of this'
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Past three-meetings…
Scotland 1 (Robertson) England 3 (Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rooney 2)
Friendly, November 2014
England 3 (Walcott, Welbeck, Lambert) Scotland 2 (Morrison, Miller)
Friendly, August 2013
England 0 Scotland 1 (Hutchison)
Euro 2000 play-off, November 1999
Prediction
Form guide…
England: WDLWWD
Scotland: WLLWDL
Vital information…
Kick-off time: 7:45pm, Friday November 11
47 min: Scotland's best chance of the proceedings so far.
The ball's sent down the left for Wallace to chase. He sends a cross into the area, Forrest should score, turns it round the post.
GOAL! ENGLAND 2 SCOTLAND 0 (Lallana)
Robert Snodgrass goes close for Scotland at one end and seconds later, they see themselves go two behind at the other.
Rose picks Adam Lallana out for a free header and he places it just away from Gordon's reach. It bounces in and England have doubled their lead.
57 min: Rooney knocks a header back across the face of goal that's begging for a boot to be laid upon it, but Hanley's there to clear away.
GOAL! ENGLAND 3 SCOTLAND 0 (Cahill)
Is that all she wrote?
Corner from the left, Rooney swings it to the near post and Cahill's header travels some distance to land in the corner of Gordon's net.
67 min: England threatening to score more and Raheem Sterling really should have added to the tally.
It's one for the blooper reels, as he mistimes his effort no more than a yard out from an open goal.
Fortunately for Sterling, it's 3-0, and that'll largely be forgotten.
77 min: What a different game this could have been if Scotland had buried one of the chances that fell to them just after half-time.
Instead, England stepped up a gear. And now, we're winding down again. A spate of substitutions sees Daniel Sturridge, Ikechi Anya and James Morrison off the field.
Jamie Vardy, Callum Paterson and James McArthur on respectively.
80 min: Dier hits a free-kick that deflect out for a corner. Rooney takes the set-piece but it comes to nothing.
England know they've won this game but more importantly, Scotland know they're beat.
Robert Snodgrass comes off, Matt Ritchie comes on.
87 min: The England fans are 'whey'-ing every pass, the Scotland fans are slowly heading for the exits.
90 min: Another sloppy ball from an England player almost plays Scotland through, meaning Rooney has to do the un-gentlemanly thing and take a yellow for a 'professional foul', as they call it.
FULL TIME: ENGLAND 3 SCOTLAND 0
That's it.
England wrap up an ultimately comfortable victory, but it could have been quite different if Scotland had taken their chances in the early moments of the second half.
So, it's Gareth Southagte's job to lose? I wonder if he wants it now...
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