LONDON :Eight games, eight wins, 22 goals scored and none conceded: England head coach Thomas Tuchel could not have wished for a more emphatic way to reach the World Cup finals.

But now the hard part begins.

When England were bunched with Serbia, Albania, Latvia and Andorra in Group K, the odds on them not topping the section would have been colossal, especially as England have not lost a World Cup qualifier since 2009.

That they did so with a 100 per cent record and became the first European nation to win every game of a qualification group of six matches or more without conceding a goal was impressive.

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