Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog as England host Croatia at Wembley in the Nations League. 'Croatia playing more football'Ian Ladyman at Wembley:Croatia have played more football in the opening minutes here than they did in the whole of the 90 minutes in Rijeka last month.With that in mind, it’s interesting that Luka Modric is not in the starting line-up here.The game completely passed the 41-year-old by as England won 7-0 in the first game. Mind you, he wasn’t the only one.England 0-0 CroatiaKane comes back into that quarter back role and plays a sensational cross-field pass to Hall. He crosses, but Vuskovic clears.It's very flat at Wembley. It's still a little hard to get up for these games. But you can only hear Croatia fans right now.England still trying to click into gear.England 0-0 CroatiaTrent is on the ball for the first time and looks for Gordon over the top - Real Madrid to Barcelona - but it's a little too heavy.England are still yet to settle. Kane and Bellingham have given the ball away too as Croatia continue to keep it well.Slow stuff from the Three Lions at the minute.England 0-0 CroatiaVlasic wins a corner on the left and Croatia are already playing a lot better than they did last month. Kane clears and wins a throw.Pickford is then caught out trying to take it round a Croatia attacker. That one has to go long, surely! Another corner.Kane clears again. Then Rogers. Still Croatia on the ball.England doing a lot of chasing early doors.England 0-0 CroatiaIt's certainly an intriguing centre back partnership for England. Just looking at it now.Anyway, Anderson is nearly caught out defensively but England earn the goal kick and are on the ball now.Anderson then gives it away again and then overcommits. Needs to be careful not to do that too much.Croatia enjoying the better of things early on.'Is Pickford stil; No 1?'Ian Ladyman at Wembley:Interesting that Jordan Pickford starts tonight.Thomas Tuchel said last week that Pickford remains his number one but that he would ‘probably rotate’ with James Trafford for these two games.So by that reckoning, Trafford will start in the really big game in Madrid against Spain on Saturday.If so, what message does that send?KICK-OFF: England 0-0 CroatiaAnd just like that, we are underway.And Harry Kane is officially capped for the 126th time.'No one more deserving'Jack Gaughan at Wembley:Lots of pomp and fanfare for Harry Kane and there isn’t anybody more deserving, to be fair. Wembley though is not full tonight, plenty of empty seats in the upper bowl.Kane is honouredKane, with his children, walks forward and picks up his Ballon d'Or title, to the applause of his team-mates and Prince William. A large tifo of the England skipper drapes in the background.He is then honoured as Peter Shilton hands over an accolade to mark his appearance record.Luka Modric then hands over a replica of a football that England took over to Croatia in the 1800s.Finally, Prince Williams hands over a framed shirt reading 'Kane 126'.He's our record breaker.'A busy night'Oliver Holt at Wembley:Harry Kane led his team out of the tunnel for the warm-up 40 minutes before kick-off. It was just the start of a busy night of formalities and presentations on the evening he breaks Peter Shilton's 37-year-old England appearance record.Here come the teams!Harry Kane leads his side out at Wembley - alongside his four children.He's about to make history.Kane: 'My biggest motivation'Harry Kane, England captain:To win a team trophy with England, a major trophy, is my biggest dream. That's always been my biggest dream, to win a European Championship or a World Cup, or both, hopefully, but I know how difficult that is. Extremely motivated to do that.Individual accolades are incredible and things I'm proud of but ultimately they're a consequence of trying to make the team better and trying to win something with the team.
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