England vs Albania LIVE: World Cup qualifier result, final score and reaction tonight

54 mins: Kastriot Dermaku fouls Harry Kane over on the right side of the pitch. It’s a similar position to where England scored the opening goal from. Reece James takes the set piece this time and sends a teasing cross into the six-yard box but there’s no runners heading towards the ball and it skips out of play.

51 mins: Henderson and Kane link up again with the midfielder slipping a through ball up to the England captain. Understandably he’s full of confidence and gives it a go from range but leans back on the effort and smokes the ball over the crossbar.

48 mins: Albania made two more substitutions at half-time. Ylber Ramadani and Enea Mihaj have replaced Nedim Bajrami and Lorenc Trashi. The away side started the second half nicely, stringing together a few passes and not overcommiting to the press. It seems as though they may want to limit the damage.

Kick off: England kick off the second half with the same personnel as the first. The first chance of the half goes to the visitors though as the win possession and work the ball down the left side. It’s played into the middle of the final third and comes to Cikalleshi who shoots from range and draws an easy save out of Pickford.

Harry Kane’s hat-trick sees him draw level with the late, great Jimmy Greaves on 44 goals for England. He’s also overtaken Wayne Rooney’s recored for the most competitive goals scored for the Three Lions (39).

After failing to score against Hungary last time out Harry Kane proved that that performance was just a blip on his goalscoring run for England.

He’s been in imperious form this evening and earned himself a hat-trick before half-time.

Harry Maguire’s poor form for Manchester United had a few people raising their eyebrows over his selection for England this evening. He answered those reservations in style with a lovely headed effort to kick start England’s dominance in the game.

45+2 mins: A dominating, devastating performance from England has blown Albania away in the first half of this World Cup qualifying match at Wembley.

Harry Maguire got things rolling and Jordan Henderson scored his second international goal but the night belongs to Harry Kane. A headed goal, a left-foot goal and a right-footed strike saw him complete a perfect hat-trick in 45 minutes.

After the dull performance against Hungary last month this is what all the England fans wanted to see and there’s another 45 minutes to go.

45+1 mins: A perfect hat-trick for Harry Kane! England win a corner in the last minute of added time and Foden curls the ball into the middle of the box. Bizarrely, Kane is unmarked and meets the ball with roundhouse right-footed shot that leaves Strakosha absolutey no chance to keep it out. Brilliant from Harry Kane!

43 mins: Kane seems intent on getting this hat-trick. James swings a cross into the box from the right and the England captain meets the ball with a diving header but he can’t direct it onto the target and the ball goes wide of the far post.