England made major kit change for World Cup opener that nobody noticed

All eyes were on England as they started their World Cup campaign with a comfortable victory over Croatia on Wednesday night.

England took an early lead when Harry Kane converted his re-taken penalty at the second attempt, before Martin Baturina levelled the scores with an impressive shot from distance.

The Three Lions responded well once again as Kane headed his side back in front from a Declan Rice corner, but Petar Musa scored on the stroke of half-time to level the scores once again.

Thomas Tuchel's side came out flying after the restart with one of their most impressive tournament performances in recent memory, as goals from Jude Bellingham and Marcus Rashford secured a thoroughly deserved win.

However, the millions of supporters who cheered on the Three Lions might not have noticed a major change to their kit for that impressive 4-2 victory.

England wore their new home kit for the opening match of Group L, which featured a tweak from the same shirts they had worn in their warm-up matches for the tournament.

Earlier in the year, England wore the same shirt with the numbers placed under the Nike logo on the right chest, which caused some confusion, as promotional images for the new kit had shown it central on the shirt.

However, that was rectified for the opening match against Croatia, with the squad numbers moved back to the central position that was used in the promotional material and has been used on the red away kit.

England to play extra World Cup match

England are set to break new ground by becoming the first nation to play an extra fixture during their World Cup campaign.

BBC Sport claim The Three Lions are in talks over a friendly game with MLS side Sporting Kansas City.

Discussions are ongoing, and the friendly is not yet locked in, but the idea is for England to take on the two-time MLS Cup winners in between the World Cup matches with Croatia and Ghana.

England have already faced off against Miami FC when they were based in West Palm Beach, with Ivan Toney scoring a hat-trick in a 6-0 win a day on from the Costa Rica friendly victory.

They are now based in Kansas City for the entirety of the tournament, training at Swope Soccer Village.

Asked about potentially playing a behind-closed-doors game, Thomas Tuchel said: "It is true that we try to play an in-house match after the match against Croatia. It is simply to use the time.

"We have many days in between the matches and we can give the players who have not played so many minutes tomorrow just a load and an actual match load and not only from training.

"We did this after the match against Costa Rica and I think we will do it one last time on the day after the Croatia game."