England captain Harry Kane scored his 50th worldwide aim on Tuesday by way of changing a past due penalty in Munich in a 1-1 Nations League draw with Germany.
Germany broke the deadlock while Jonas Hofmann fired the hosts beforehand on the Allianz Arena, but Kane levelled from the spot with mins left.
Germany defender Nico Schlotterbeck stumbled into Kane in the area and the penalty become given after a VAR review.
The Tottenham striker moved into outright second on England’s list of all-time leading goalscorers, passing Bobby Charlton’s general of 49.
“It’s a certainly best feeling,” Kane told Channel Four.
“I had multiple early possibilities and thought it could be one of those days.”
“It’s desirable to get the purpose and it’s just a disgrace we did not nick it in the long run,” introduced Kane, who had in advance been denied via a fantastic Manuel Neuer shop.
Gareth Southgate’s side continue to be backside of Group A3 after dropping 1-0 to Hungary in Budapest final Saturday.
Germany, who go to Hungary on Saturday, are a factor above them in third because the Germans’ educate Hansi Flick extended his unbeaten run to 11 games, dating returned to September.
“It’s bitter to concede the equaliser — extremely silly,” Hofmann advised ZDF. “But we created true possibilities and it changed into a respectable performance.”
Germany, playing in the shirts in their country wide women’s crew, twice breached the England defence in the first half with out praise.
Thomas Mueller lobbed the ball over England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, but the whistle had already gone after an harm to Kalvin Phillips, who was replaced by way of Jude Bellingham.
Hofmann then broke clean and fired beyond Pickford, but after a VAR take a look at, the attempt became dominated offside.
Neuer, who captained Germany for the 54th time to overtake 2014 World Cup-triumphing skipper Philipp Lahm, made a reflex keep to disclaim Bukayo Saka.
England struggled to get the ball into the container, especially within the first half of, when Kane was intently marshalled by means of the German defence.
Germany have been in the end rewarded for his or her strain early inside the second length.
Joshua Kimmich cut up the defence with a bypass into the toes of Hofmann, who drilled in a shot which Pickford should handiest get a glove to.
Only a high-quality forestall by way of Pickford avoided Mueller marking his 114th global appearance with a aim.
Neuer again got here to Germany’s rescue with any other top notch keep from Kane’s near-range effort.
However, there has been no denying England’s captain who despatched Neuer the wrong manner from the spot.
