England vs Ukraine live score, updates, highlights as Kane and Saka score in Euro 2024 qualifier

By | March 26, 2023
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WEMBLEY STADIUM, LONDON — Just three days after Harry Kane became England’s all-time leading goalscorer with his 54th goal for his country, the Tottenham striker leads his team out to a hero’s welcome in the capital against Ukraine.

England’s Euro 2024 qualifying campaign got off to an ideal start on Thursday as Kane overtook Wayne Rooney in the goalscoring charts with his penalty proving decisive in a 2-1 win.

While the home side sit top of Group C, Ukraine will get their first chance to earn some points in their quest for a place at next summer’s tournament in Germany. But in order to do so they’ll need to stop the Three Lions recording an 11th European Championship qualifying home win on the bounce.

The Sporting News is following the match live and providing live score updates, commentary.

MORE: Euro 2024 qualifying group tables, standings, fixtures and results

Confirmed lineups

England starting XI (4-3-3): Pickford (GK) — Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell — Bellingham, Rice, Henderson — Saka, Kane, Maddison

Ukraine starting XI (4-2-3-1): Trubin (GK) — Karavev, Svatok, Matviyenko, Mykolenko — Zinchenko, Stepanenko — Malinovskyi, Sudakov, Mudryk — Yaremchuk

England vs Ukraine live score

  1H 2H Final
England 2 0 —
Ukraine 0 0 —

Goals:

ENG — Kane (37th min)

ENG — Saka (40th min)

England vs Ukraine live updates, highlights from Euro 2024 qualifier

We’re back underway!

HALF-TIME: England 2-0 Ukraine

45th min: Three added minutes. Ukraine just need to get to the break here. England have also slowed down a little having got two quick goals.

40th min: GOAL! England 2-0 Ukraine

Saka with a stunner! He turns his man on the edge of the box and curls it with his left foot into the top left corner of the goal. That was absolutely perfect placement! Goal No.55 for Mr. Tottenham.

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37th min: GOAL! England 1-0 Ukraine

It had been coming of course, it’s that man Kane again. Saka plays in a delicious ball to the back post and Kane connects to volley home past Trubin from three yards.

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36th min: Saka, Maddison and Henderson all take snap shots from the edge of the box in quick succession but are met with three different blocks. 

34th min: Now Maddison goes close with a header from Henderson’s cross but he commits a foul in the process. Not quite the same level of attacking intensity we saw on Thursday night against Italy, so far.

30th min: Arsenal fans won’t be enjoying this game too much right now because that’s the third time Saka has been fouled. Maddison takes a quick free-kick and Kane is quickest to react but he pokes it just over the bar. He looked just offside anyway.

25th min: This time Walker whips one in from the right to an unmarked Kane in the middle of the six-yard box but he attempts to volley it in and completely messes it up, failing to make contact. Take that Golden Boot trophy he just received back off him!

21st min: Chilwell crosses in to Kane at the back post but his header goes straight into the hands of Trubin.

17th min: At the other end Trubin fails to deal with an easy catch and Maddison, arriving at the back post, follows up on the loose ball and just catches the goalkeeper with his foot making contact with his head. The medics are busy so far, but he’s good to continue.

15th min: Yaremchuk is played in over the top and is through one on one with Pickford but drags his shot wide. The flag goes up anyway for offside but that won’t do his confidence much good!

11th min: Chilwell gets down the left and whips in a dangerous ball but it’s just too high for Kane to connect, and Saka, arriving at the back post, can’t control the ball. England on the front foot.

8th min: Kane goes down in the six-yard box under a challenge from Svatok and appeals for a penalty but the referee waves it away.

5th min: Some sloppy defending at the back from England presents Ukraine with half a chance on the edge of the box but the shot is easily blocked in the end.

2nd min: An early clash of heads for Chilwell and Malinoskyi that leaves the Ukrainian down and needing treatment. The medics deem him okay to carry on.

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2 mins from kickoff: Anthems done before both teams stand together with the Ukrainian flag and the message ‘Peace’. Great respect from both sets of fans.

5 mins from kickoff: The players make their way out of the tunnel. Harry Kane is set to be recognised before kick off in front of his home crowd having become his country’s all-time top goalscorer last time out. His penalty against Italy saw him move to 54 goals, one more than previous record holder, Wayne Rooney.

15 mins from kickoff: The stadium is filling up nicely. Plenty of Ukrainian fans with a sea of blue and yellow flags are taking up one corner of the stadium in the lower tier and making themselves heard. Zinchenko’s name is greeted with the biggest round of applause upon the reading of his name from the teamsheet over the tannoy. 

30 mins from kickoff: Oleksandr Zinchenko will be in for a busy evening when he comes up against Arsenal teammate Bukayo Saka as well as his former Manchester City comrades.

In what will be a poignant night of football given Ukraine’s appearances in Euro 2024 qualifiers, despite the ongoing conflict with Russia meaning they can’t play home matches in their own country, Zinchenko remains grateful for the support he has received.

“I love them all so much, but unfortunately on the pitch there are no friends, so let’s see what is going to happen,” he said. “Bukayo has not given me the line-up yet, but I am going to push as much as I can.

“I got a lot of support from all of them [teammates], for which I am so grateful. I would like to also say a massive thanks to all of the UK for all of the help and support for all of us Ukrainians, for the country, our people, all of the refugees who are living here.

“It is so important for us. Without your support, it would be so difficult and tough. We really appreciate it.”

45 mins from kickoff: England’s squad for this match consists of 20 players with Luke Shaw suspended following his red card against Italy and Reece James dropping out injured. New of Foden’s surgery on Sunday morning has also come as a blow.

Southgate opted not to call anyone else up for their second Euro 2024 qualifier, explaining: “We have just about enough to get through this game.

“We have been training with this group all week – to call somebody from the outside would be potentially quite complicated.

“We would have no idea where they might be and what their training load has been over the last couple of days.
“If we were going to do that at this point we would do that with the under-21s.”

70 mins from kickoff: And here’s England’s starting XI with James Maddison coming into the attack.

80 mins from kickoff: Ukraine have gone early with their team news. Arsenal’s Oleksandr Zinchenko and Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk start.

100 mins from kickoff: Some early team news for England with the FA announcing Phil Foden will miss today’s match after undergoing surgery to remove his appendix.

The Manchester City forward was only on the pitch for a few minutes against Italy after coming on as a substitute only to be the man made to make way after Luke Shaw’s sending off. Foden would most likely have been given a start today so Southgate now has a decision to make.

120 mins from kickoff: Hello, and welcome to The Sporting News’ live coverage of tonight’s Euro 2024 qualifier from Wembley. Can England follow up their win against Italy with victory over Ukraine? Is Harry Kane going to extend his goalscoring record even further? Could Ukraine cause an upset? We’ll soon be finding out. Let’s get going! 

England vs Ukraine confirmed lineups

Southgate makes three changes to the starting XI from the team that beat Italy. He was forced into one change following Luke Shaw’s red card, with Chelsea’s Ben Chilwell stepping in at left-back.

Elsewhere, the hosts rotate with Jordan Henderson and James Maddison coming in for Kalvin Phillips and Jack Grealish. Phil Foden and Reece James withdrew from the squad on due to an injury concern.

England starting XI (4-3-3): Pickford (GK) — Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell — Bellingham, Rice, Henderson — Saka, Kane, Maddison

England subs: Ramsdale (GK), Forster (GK), Trippier, Dier, Guehi, Phillips, Gallagher, Toney, Grealish

Rotan’s key pair of Oleksandr Zinchenko and Mykhailo Mudryk both start for the visitors, but veteran captain Andriy Yarmolenko misses out. Zinchenko had been rested for a midweek friendly match against a Brentford side.

Ukraine starting XI (4-2-3-1): Trubin (GK) — Karavev, Svatok, Matviyenko, Mykolenko — Zinchenko, Stepanenko — Malinovskyi, Sudakov, Mudryk — Yaremchuk

Ukraine subs: Lunin (GK), Shevchenko (GK), Sobol, Sarapii, Sydorchuk, Konoplianka, Dovbyk, Miroshnichenko, Buyalskiy, Tsygankov, Bondarenko, Pikhalonok

MORE: How many teams qualify to Euro 2024? Rules, format explained

How to watch England vs Ukraine

Here’s how to watch all of the action from this match in some of the major territories:

  TV channel Streaming
USA — Fubo, ViX+
Canada — DAZN
UK Channel 4 All 4
Australia — Optus Sport
New Zealand Sky Sport 7 beIN Sports beIN Sports Connect
India Sony TEN 2 Jio TV, Sony LIV
Hong Kong — —
Malaysia Astro SuperSport 3

Astro GO, sooka
Singapore Hub Sports 2 StarHub TV+

UK: This match will broadcast live in the UK via Channel 4 and All 4 streaming services

USA: This game will be available via the ViX+ platform for subscribers in both English and Spanish. It will also be streamed live via Fubo.

Canada: Euro 2024 qualifying matches will be broadcast exclusively via DAZN in Canada.

Australia: Fans in Australia can stream every match live and on demand on Optus Sport. 

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