England vs Malta live: Updates from Euro 2024 qualifier

Kane goes around the 'keeper and goes down. He's certain it should be a penalty, but the referee books him instead. It's a clear foul, so it's no surprise the Bayern Munich strike is furious

And now, at the other end, Tomori picks up a yellow for a bad tackle on Yannick Yankam

It takes England 25 minutes to force the first corner of the game, but they make nothing of it as Maguire doesn't get a strong enough contact on the ball for his header to count as either a shot or pass

A late and somewhat lazy challenge from the Malta striker as he's second to the ball in a tackle with Tomori

A burst of pace from the right-back to reach a ball over the top, just about keeping it in play, but he can't find and England man with his hooked cross

The Manchester City man is causing the bulk of the problems for Malta. This time, he pops up on the left hand side of the box, but his cross it too close to the goalkeeper

The hosts might be 1-0 up, but they've not hit top fear, or anywhere near it yet. They haven't registered a shot, despite being ahead, and are struggling with their final ball

Pepe, you have to say, was very unlucky here

An error from Harry Maguire gifts the ball to Paul Mbong, who surges forward before lashing over

More than a touch of fortune about that one! Phil Foden breaks into the area and tries to pull the ball back to Kane, but his cross clatters into Enrico Pepe and, despite the efforts of Henry Bonello, bobbles into the back of the net

It's been an impressive opening four minutes for the visitors, who have enjoyed a fair chunk of possession an get the ball into the area for a second time, only for England to clear the cross

Wow. Teuma has a chance within 30 seconds to put Malta ahead as he drives towards the edge of the area after a mistake from Conor Gallagher, only to fire narrowly wide of the far post

Malta, in their red shirts, white shorts and red socks, kick things off after a wonderful tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton from a sold out Wembley

Kick off is just minutes away, so it's time for the national anthems, starting with Malta

England have won each of the previous seven meetings between these two teams, including a 4-0 victory early on in this qualifying campaign, when an own goal, alongside strikes from Trent Alexander-Arnold, Harry Kane and Callum Wilson sealed the points

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The same can't be said for Malta, who are not only on a run of 73 European Championship qualifier without a clean sheet, but have also never won a European Championship qualifier on the road. Even so, their manager insists it hasn't been that bad a qualifying campaign

England are unbeaten in 16 home European Championship qualifiers since 2007, winning 14 and drawing the other two, while netting at least two goals in the most recent 13 of those games.

In fact, their last defeat at home in European Championship qualifying was the 3-2 loss against Croatia, leading to the infamous Wally with the brolly headline

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It's been a terrible campaign for Malta, on the other hand, who have lost each of their seven matches. Defeat tonight would see them go through a European Championship qualifying group for the second time, having also done so in their attempts to reach Euro 2000

Gareth Southgate's side have won seven of their eight matches since being eliminated from the Qatar World Cup by France at the quarter-final stag