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Harry Kane’s penalty miss pivotal as World champions Spain beat England in five-goal thriller at Wembley
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English footballer (born 1993)
Harry Edward Kane is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the England national team. He is regarded as one of the best players in the world, one of the best strikers of his generation, and one of England's greatest ever players. Kane has scored over 500 career goals for club and country, being Tottenham Hotspur's all-time top goalscorer (280), England's all-time top goalscorer (86), and the highest-scoring English player in the UEFA Champions League (54).
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Wembley is a district in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It includes the wards of Alperton, Barn Hill, Kenton, Northwick Park, Preston, Sudbury, Tokyngton and Wembley Central, Wembley Hill and Wembley Park. The population was 133,616 in 2021, an increase of 20,000 since 2011.
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Mikel Oyarzabal came off the bench to haunt England once more, securing a dramatic 3-2 Nations League victory for Spain at Wembley. The late winner arrived after Harry Kane had missed a crucial penalty due to a bizarre double-touch rule, capping off an incredibly frantic encounter between the two European heavyweights.
Kane's missed penalty that proved pivotal as the European champions turned the game around in London
Report from Wembley as Lamine Yamal, Alex Baena and Mikel Oyarzabal help Spain to thrilling victory in Nations League; European and world champions show their class despite Anthony Gordon and Harry Kane giving Three Lions lead; Crucially, Kane slipped and hit a penalty against the bar