England beat Latvia to secure '26 World Cup spot

England booked their spot astatine the 2026 FIFA World Cup with a 5-0 thrashing of Latvia successful qualifying connected Tuesday.

Thomas Tuchel's broadside went into the crippled knowing that 3 points would confirm their qualification for the showpiece lawsuit successful the United States, Mexico and Canada adjacent summertime and achieved conscionable that with goals from Anthony Gordon, Harry Kane and Eberechi Eze.

The all-important triumph successful Latvia was England's sixth from six games successful qualifying and maintained their grounds arsenic the lone unbeaten broadside successful Group K. They are besides yet to concede a goal.

England won't cognize their radical signifier opponents until the World Cup gully takes spot connected Dec. 5 successful Washington DC.

They volition headdress of their palmy qualifying run with games against Serbia connected Nov. 13 and Albania connected Nov. 16.

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Tuchel and England's quest to triumph the World Cup for the archetypal clip successful implicit 50 years volition statesman successful June with the last acceptable for New Jersey's MetLife Stadium connected July 19.