Kane Vows England’s Playing Style “set in stone” After Dominant Win over Serbia

England captain, Harry Kane has vowed that their playing style is “set in stone,” after 5-0 away victory over Serbia.

Kane opened the scoring with a header before Noni Madueke, Ezri Konsa, Marc Guehi and Marcus Rashford netted in a dominant victory, which put England seven points clear at the summit of UEFA’s Qualifying Group K from Albania who leapfrogged Serbia into second.

The 32 year-old forward however addressed recent “noise” of their turgid performances after their most comfortable victory since Thomas Tuchel took charge, as he iterated that their style is now firm aside from a few tweaks depending on opposition.

“This is the time when the competition starts, the formation and the way we play and the style is going to be set in stone,” iterated Kane on

“Of course, there might be a few games where we have to change a little bit depending on opposition, but we want to play our way – we want to be on the front foot and win the ball back quick and when we lose the ball, recover well.

“And with the ball, lots of movement and lots of pace and playing out through the lines. You could say today was the perfect template and we’re going to have difficult games from now until the World Cup but we’ll use this as a starting point and the standard’s been really high.”

Kane proceeded to explain that low-block defensive opposition has been England’s biggest issue in the group but was pleased at how they finally unlocked a method of dealing with those type of teams.

“It’s not always been easy against opposition who are sitting in a block of eleven when we have to break them down and be patient.

“We knew tonight would be a really big test against better opposition and better players, we said we wanted to show what we can do especially without the ball with the high pressure and make it difficult for them.

“They played a lot of long balls which we recovered well and with the ball we were electric in moments and made it really difficult in the one-v-one battles and we took our chances well.”

Kane consequently felt that their “fairly comfortable” win was a reflection of their progress under Tuchel as he praised his teammates for stepping up in terms of “…  ball movement, the one-v-one battles and when I was dropping we had runners in behind and when others were dropping, we still had runners,” on the ball.