England’s perfect start faces its toughest test

Gareth Southgate’s side have five wins out of five in World Cup qualifying but now travel to Warsaw for what looks to be their most difficult game of the group

England travel to face Poland on Wednesday (Action images via Reuters)

England head into the toughest game of their World Cup qualifying campaign in the best possible shape.

The 4-0 victory over Andorra on Sunday that followed another 4-0 triumph, in Budapest against Hungary, means it's a perfect five from five so far on the Three Lions' road to Qatar.

Qualifying for major tournaments wasn't always this easy. Indeed, previous incarnations of the national team had to rely on big results late in campaigns to reach their goals while others infamously failed to get there at all in the not so distant past.